Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 69
After that Ivan Golik returned to his fellow-servants, and put the pieces of the broken bow behind his shin-bone; but the prince returned with the serpents into the guest-chamber, and they all rejoiced because he had done his appointed task.
Who acts: prince · What happens: return, put, break, rejoice, do, appoint · To what, where: pieces, shin bone, guest chamber, appointed task
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 Golik | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Golik | nsubj |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Golik | compound |
| 4 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 servants | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 servants | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fellow | punct |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 returned | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pieces | det |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bow | det |
| 18 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bow | amod |
| 19 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 bone | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bone | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shin | shin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bone | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 shin | punct |
| 24 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 returned | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 prince | det |
| 28 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | nsubj |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 serpents | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 serpents | det |
| 32 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 returned | obl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 chamber | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 chamber | det |
| 35 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chamber | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 guest | punct |
| 37 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rejoiced | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 rejoiced | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 43 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 done | mark |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 done | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 done | aux |
| 46 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 rejoiced | advcl |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 task | nmod:poss |
| 48 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 task | amod |
| 49 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 done | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | after Ivan Golik | to prince's fellow servants result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to servant=Result | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the pieces of the broken bow | prince's shin bone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme behind bone=Destination | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | return | past | the prince | the guest chamber | with the serpents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | rejoice | participle · passive | pieces = piece | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | prince | prince's appointed task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | task | prince | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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