Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 56
They were then betrothed, and began to feast together and celebrate the marriage.
What happens: betroth, begin, feast, celebrate · To what, where: daughters, marriage
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 betrothed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 betrothed | advmod |
| 4 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 betrothed | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 feast | mark |
| 9 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 feast | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 celebrate | cc |
| 12 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feast | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marriage | det |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 celebrate | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past · passive | daughters = daughter | then | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | feast | to-infinitive | together property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | celebrate | present | the marriage | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme |
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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