Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 99
When she came back she said: “Goodman, I fear our son is born under an unlucky star!”
Who acts: neighbour · What happens: come back, say, fear, bear · To what, where: son, Goodman, unlucky star · 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 (neighbour), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Goodman | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Goodman | punct |
| 9 | Goodman | goodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fear | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fear | nsubj |
| 12 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Goodman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fear | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 star | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 star | det |
| 19 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 star | amod |
| 20 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | neighbour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | present | neighbour | our son | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | present · passive | Goodman | a unlucky star | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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