Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 138

But on the way he bethought himself, and decided that no man can run faster than a river.

Who acts: trace, man · What happens: bethink, decide, run · To what, where: trace, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (trace, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:3033): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 bethought	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bethought	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bethought	nsubj
6	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 bethought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 decided	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 decided	cc
10	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bethought	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 run	mark
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 run	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 run	aux
15	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 decided	ccomp
16	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 run	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 faster	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	trace	trace	the way		tree rules
2	decide	past	trace not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run	can	no man			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/138/