Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 159
Then about midnight, I don’t know where from, hordes of devils, seen and unseen, scurried up, and made such a turmoil and row, and set up a dance with wild music.
Who acts: I · What happens: not know, see, scurry up, make, set up · To what, where: devils, hordes, turmoil, dance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 know | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midnight | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 scurried | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hordes | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hordes | punct |
| 12 | hordes | horde | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scurried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 devils | case |
| 14 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hordes | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 devils | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 unseen | cc |
| 18 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seen | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scurried | punct |
| 20 | scurried | scurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 know | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 scurried | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | parataxis |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 turmoil | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 turmoil | det |
| 27 | turmoil | turmoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 row | cc |
| 29 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 turmoil | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 set | cc |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 made | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 set | compound:prt |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dance | det |
| 35 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 music | case |
| 37 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 music | amod |
| 38 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | then; midnight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | devils not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | scurry up | participle | hordes of devils | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horde=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | make | past | such turmoil and row | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset turmoil=Product | |||||
| 5 | set up | participle | a dance | with wild music | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dance=Patient with music=Instrument |
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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