Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 10
She asked herself and she sought to know whence God had sent him such enormous wealth.
Who acts: princess · What happens: ask, seek, know, send · To what, where: princess, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 asked | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sought | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | xcomp |
| 9 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 sent | advmod |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wealth | amod |
| 15 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wealth | amod |
| 16 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | princess | princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | send | past · perfect · passive | God | boy obj; such enormous wealth obj; whence property | tree rules |
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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