Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 5
It may-be far, it may-be short, he at last reached that distant land where the Jews crucified Christ.
Who acts: road, Christ, distant land · What happens: be, reach, crucify · To what, where: Christ
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, Christ, distant land), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 short | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | aux |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 far | cop |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 short | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 far | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 short | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | aux |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 short | cop |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 short | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 crucified | mark |
| 18 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 land | amod |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crucified | nsubj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 crucified | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Jews | det |
| 22 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 crucified | nsubj |
| 23 | crucified | crucify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | advcl |
| 24 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 crucified | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | may | road | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Christ | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | crucify | past | distant land | Christ | the Jews nsubj | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christ=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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