Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 4
So our good priest got together all his keys, and seeing the icon of St. Nicholas, struck it down, and left his parish to go whithersoever his eyes should guide him.
Who acts: good priest, seeing, eyes · What happens: get together, see, strike down, leave, go, guide · To what, where: keys, icon, parish, PRIEST
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 (good priest, seeing, 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 | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 priest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 priest | amod |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 keys | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 keys | nmod:poss |
| 9 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 struck | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 struck | cc |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 struck | csubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 icon | det |
| 14 | icon | icon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Nicholas | case |
| 16 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 icon | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 struck | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 struck | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 parish | nmod:poss |
| 26 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 left | advcl |
| 29 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 33 guide | advmod |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 guide | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 guide | aux |
| 33 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 guide | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get together | past | our good priest | PRIEST's keys | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer key=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | the icon of Nicholas St. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer icon=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | strike down | past | seeing | icon | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | our good priest not said here | PRIEST's parish | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | our good priest not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | guide | should | PRIEST's eyes | PRIEST | whithersoever 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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