Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 82
And in the open field there stood a stone column, and on the column these words were written:
What happens: stand, write · To what, where: stone column, open field, words, column
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 field | amod |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 column | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 column | compound |
| 10 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 written | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 written | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 column | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 column | det |
| 15 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 written | obl |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 words | det |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 written | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 written | aux:pass |
| 19 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a stone column | the open field; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent column=Theme in field=Destination | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | this words | the column | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on column=Destination |
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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