Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 93
And when he grew up, the mother said to her husband: “It is full time that we secured a wife for our son.”
Who acts: servant, mother, village, we · What happens: grow up, say, be, secure · To what, where: husband, full time · 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 (servant, mother, village, we), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grew | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grew | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 15 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 time | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 secured | obj |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 secured | nsubj |
| 21 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 secured | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 secured | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | servant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | mother's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | village | full time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | secure in a quote | past | we | full time | for our son; a wife obj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition that=Beneficiary wife=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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