Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 89
Well, one day he went to a kabak, intoxicated himself with liquor, and then went staggering home blind drunk.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, intoxicate, stagger · To what, where: kabak, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kabak | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kabak | det |
| 9 | kabak | kabak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 intoxicated | punct |
| 11 | intoxicated | intoxicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 intoxicated | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 liquor | case |
| 14 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 intoxicated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 19 | staggering | stagger | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 went | xcomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 staggering | advmod |
| 21 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 drunk | amod |
| 22 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 staggering | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | a kabak | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kabak=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | intoxicate | past | man not said here | man | with liquor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | go | past | man not said here | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stagger | gerund | man not said here | drunk, home property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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