Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 108
So he pondered and thought, and decided to desert and run away whither his eyes might lead him.
Who acts: end, eyes · What happens: ponder, think, decide, desert, run away, lead · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, eyes), 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 pondered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pondered | nsubj |
| 3 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pondered | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 decided | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 decided | cc |
| 8 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pondered | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 desert | mark |
| 10 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 decided | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 run | cc |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 desert | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 lead | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lead | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lead | aux |
| 18 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 run | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lead | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past | end | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | end not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | decide | past | end not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | desert not said to happen | to-infinitive | end not said here | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run away | infinitive | end not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lead | might | end's eyes | end | whither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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