Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 41
I did my best to keep them, but they would not stay.”
Who acts: hands · What happens: keep, not stay · To what, where: hands
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 (hands), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | aux |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 best | nmod:poss |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stay | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 stay | advmod |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | hands = hand not said here | hands = hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not stay | would · past · do-support | hands = hand | 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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