Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 96
But one poor beggar, bent with age, and all in rags, went up to the door of Mark the Rich.
What happens: bend, go up · To what, where: one poor beggar
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 bent | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 beggar | nummod |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beggar | amod |
| 4 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bent | punct |
| 6 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 age | case |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 went | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rags | case |
| 13 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 all | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bent | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Mark | case |
| 21 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 door | nmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Rich | det |
| 23 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Mark | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | participle · passive | one poor beggar | with age | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with age=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | to the door of Mark and the Rich | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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