Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 92
Then Mark the Rich came, and sat awaiting the Lord.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: come, sit, await · To what, where: Lord
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 (Mark), 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 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rich | det |
| 4 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mark | flat |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sat | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lord | det |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 awaiting | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mark | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Mark not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | await | gerund | Mark not said here | the Lord | tree rules |
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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