Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 18
The old man looked at them and said, “Young and green, goes far, sleeps sound, and leaves the work undone!”
Who acts: old man · What happens: look, say, go, sleep, leave, undo · To what, where: sound, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Young | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Young | punct |
| 11 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 green | cc |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Young | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goes | punct |
| 15 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Young | parataxis |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 goes | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sleeps | punct |
| 18 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 goes | conj |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sleeps | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaves | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leaves | cc |
| 22 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 work | det |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaves | obj |
| 25 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 work | acl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 undone | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old man | at ricks = rick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | present | sound | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | present | the work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||||
| 6 | undo in a quote | participle | the work not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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