Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 176
“That is my own chosen bridegroom, who brought me back to light of day, but for whom I should have remained beneath for ever!”
Who acts: That, own chosen bridegroom, servant · What happens: choose, be, bring back, remain, light · To what, where: own chosen bridegroom, servant, light, day
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, own chosen bridegroom, servant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bridegroom | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bridegroom | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bridegroom | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bridegroom | amod |
| 6 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bridegroom | amod |
| 7 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bridegroom | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 light | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whom | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 whom | cc |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | parataxis |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 remained | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 remained | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 remained | aux |
| 24 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 whom | acl:relcl |
| 25 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 24 remained | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 remained | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 bridegroom | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bridegroom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | my own chosen bridegroom | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring back in a quote | past | my own chosen bridegroom | servant | light of day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to light=Destination | |||
| 4 | remain in a quote | should · perfect | servant | beneath property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | light in a quote | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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