Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 43
Iván Tsarévich sat on the grey Wolf and they went a third journey.
Who acts: Iván, watchmen · What happens: sit, go · To what, where: grey Wolf, third journey
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, watchmen), 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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iván | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Wolf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wolf | amod |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 journey | amod |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Iván | the grey Wolf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wolf=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | watchmen = watchman | a third journey | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme |
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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