Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 94
And then the poor heard that there was a great feast at the house of Mark the Rich.
Who acts: poor, great feast · What happens: hear, be · 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 (poor, great feast), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heard | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 poor | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feast | amod |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mark | case |
| 16 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rich | det |
| 18 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mark | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the poor | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a great feast at the house of Mark and the Rich | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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