Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 96
All the merchants gathered round him and began valuing the stone.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: gather, begin, value · To what, where: stone
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 (merchants), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 merchants | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchants | det |
| 3 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gathered | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 9 | valuing | value | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 began | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 valuing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | all merchants | round ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | all merchants not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | value | gerund | all merchants not said here | the stone | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=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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