Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
Could ever a mother wish to be torn from her children?”
What happens: tear · To what, where: mother wish
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: 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 wish | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wish | det |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | compound |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 torn | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 torn | aux:pass |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wish | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 torn | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | to-infinitive · passive | from thing's children | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: from child=Trajectory |
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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