Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 76
Then the whole story came out, and the father bade his wife be chopped up into bits.
Who acts: whole story, father · What happens: come out, bade, chop up · To what, where: wife, bits
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 (whole story, father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bade | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bade | nsubj |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chopped | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 chopped | aux:pass |
| 15 | chopped | chop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bade | ccomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 chopped | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 bits | case |
| 18 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chopped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the whole story | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | bade | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | chop up | infinitive · passive | father's wife | into bits result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into bit=Result |
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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