Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 64
So he put all the fragments back into the water, rinsed and scoured them through, fitting the pieces together, and breathed on them.
Who acts: pope · What happens: put, rinse, scour, fit, breathe · To what, where: fragments, water, lungs, pieces
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 (pope), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fragments | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fragments | det |
| 6 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rinsed | punct |
| 12 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 water | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scoured | cc |
| 14 | scoured | scour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 scoured | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADV | _ | 14 scoured | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fitting | punct |
| 18 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 scoured | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pieces | det |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fitting | obj |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 fitting | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 breathed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 breathed | cc |
| 24 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 breathed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | pope | all fragments | the water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fragment=Goal | |||
| 2 | rinse | participle | the water not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scour | past | pope not said here | lungs = lung | through property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | |||
| 4 | fit | gerund | pope not said here | the pieces | together property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | |||
| 5 | breathe | participle | pope not said here | on lungs = lung | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination |
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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