Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 32
“Mother, there have been strange men journeying past who wanted a drink of water.”
Who acts: Mother, strange men · What happens: be, journey, want · To what, where: strange men, drink · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mother, strange men), 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 | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 been | expl |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 been | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 men | cop |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | journeying | journey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 men | acl |
| 10 | past | past | ADP | _ | 12 wanted | mark |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 journeying | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drink | det |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wanted | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drink | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 men | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | participle | Mother | strange men | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | journey in a quote | gerund | strange men not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | past | a drink of water | who nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=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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