Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 87
Then his sister flung herself over him and cried out, “Oh, my brother! my darling!”
Who acts: sister · What happens: fling, cry out · To what, where: sister, brother
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 (sister), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flung | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | nsubj |
| 4 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 flung | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flung | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flung | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brother | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 brother | punct |
| 13 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 brother | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oh | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 brother | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 darling | nmod:poss |
| 19 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 flung | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | servant's sister | sister | then | over servant | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme over he=Destination | ||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | servant's sister not said here | my brother | my darling obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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