Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 119
The wife of Mark the Rich was to receive the bearer with all honour, and marry him to her daughter.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: MARK
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 (wife), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receive | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Mark | case |
| 4 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rich | det |
| 6 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mark | conj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 receive | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 receive | mark |
| 9 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bearer | det |
| 11 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receive | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 honour | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 honour | det |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marry | cc |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 receive | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wife of Mark and the Rich | with all honour; the bearer obj; receive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | infinitive | the wife of Mark and the Rich not said here | MARK | to wife's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient |
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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