Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 75
So the soldier went away home, lay down on his bed, and became very ill.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: go away, lay down, become · To what, where: bed
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ill | advmod |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the soldier | away, home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | the soldier not said here | soldier's bed | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination | |||
| 3 | become | past | the soldier not said here | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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