Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
I have never seen such a fine mare in all my life.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not see · To what, where: fine mare, life
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 mare | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mare | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mare | amod |
| 8 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 life | det:predet |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | present · perfect | I | such fine mare | my life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mare=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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