Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 68
So the next night Vasíli Tsarévich went to keep watch in the garden.
Who acts: next night · What happens: go, keep · To what, where: watch, garden
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 (next night), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 5 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 night | appos |
| 6 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vasíli | flat |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 10 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the next night | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | the next night not said here | watch | the garden | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme in garden=Location |
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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