Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 87
So he went on one day, and a second and a third day, and suddenly a fierce grey Wolf met him and said: “All hail to thee, warrior!
Who acts: horse, fierce grey Wolf · What happens: go, meet, say · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horse, fierce grey Wolf), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 second | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 second | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 second | det |
| 10 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 day | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 second | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 met | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 met | cc |
| 17 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 22 met | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Wolf | det |
| 19 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Wolf | amod |
| 20 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Wolf | amod |
| 21 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 met | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 met | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 hail | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 hail | punct |
| 28 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 hail | det |
| 29 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 thee | case |
| 31 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 hail | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 warrior | punct |
| 33 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hail | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | horse | day; second | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a fierce grey Wolf | horse | suddenly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a fierce grey Wolf not said here | all hail to thee and warrior ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «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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