Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 143
She wept bitter tears, went in front of the house, and sat on the threshold and let her tears flow.
Who acts: many, tears · What happens: weep, go, sit, let, flow · To what, where: bitter tears, front, threshold
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 (many, tears), 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 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tears | amod |
| 4 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wept | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 threshold | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 threshold | det |
| 17 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sat | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tears | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 flow | nsubj |
| 22 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | many | bitter tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | many not said here | front of the house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | the threshold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on threshold=Location | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | flow | present | many's tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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