Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 42
The mother and father blessed them, and the brothers set forth on their distant way and road.
Who acts: mother, brothers · What happens: bless, set · To what, where: brides, distant way
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 (mother, brothers), 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 | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blessed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 father | cc |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | conj |
| 5 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blessed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brothers | det |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blessed | advcl |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 road | cc |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | past | the mother and father | brides = bride | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | present | the brothers | brides's distant way and road | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on way=Destination |
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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