Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
So they then thought they would give a feast to all the christened world.
Who acts: drums · What happens: think, give, christen · To what, where: feast, christened world · 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 (drums), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 world | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | drums = drum | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | would | drums = drum | a feast | all christened world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to world=Recipient | |||
| 3 | christen | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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