Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 2
Once upon a time there lived an old man and his old wife, and they had no children, and what on earth did they not do to get them!
Who acts: man · What happens: live, have, do, not do, get · To what, where: old man, children, earth, man
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 (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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wife | amod |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 children | det |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 what | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 what | cc |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obl |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 do | advmod |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 did | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 get | mark |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 do | advcl |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 get | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old man and ZAMORÝSHEK's old wife | there | time | what parataxis; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | man | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | earth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not do | present | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | man not said here | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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