Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 5
Then the soldier buckled the bag tightly, hung it on a peg, and lay down to sleep.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: buckle, hang, lay down, sleep · To what, where: bag, peg
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | 4 buckled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buckled | nsubj |
| 4 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buckled | obj |
| 7 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 4 buckled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hung | punct |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 buckled | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hung | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 peg | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 peg | det |
| 13 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hung | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sleep | mark |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lay | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buckle | past | the soldier | the bag | then | tightly property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||
| 2 | hang | past | bag | a peg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on peg=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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