Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 81
And the soldier, ill as he was, jumped up from his bed, buckled the nosebag together firmly, very tightly, threw it on his shoulder, and went into the Bryánski Woods, the slumbrous forest.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, jump up, buckle, throw, go · To what, where: nosebag, bed, shoulder, Bryánski Woods
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jumped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 was | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 was | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 jumped | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buckled | punct |
| 16 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 jumped | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nosebag | det |
| 18 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obj |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 jumped | advmod |
| 20 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 10 jumped | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tightly | punct |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 tightly | advmod |
| 23 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 10 jumped | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 threw | punct |
| 25 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 threw | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 shoulder | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 29 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 Woods | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Woods | det |
| 35 | Bryánski | Bryánski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Woods | compound |
| 36 | Woods | Woods | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 forest | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 forest | det |
| 39 | slumbrous | slumbrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 forest | amod |
| 40 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Woods | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | soldier | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump up | past | the soldier | the nosebag | soldier's bed | firmly, tightly, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nosebag=Theme from bed=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | buckle | participle | the soldier not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | throw | past | bed | soldier's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the soldier not said here | the Bryánski Woods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into woods=Initial_Location |
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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