Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 84
And very many years went by, and the soldier never took his nosebag down.
Who acts: many years, soldier · What happens: go by, not take down · To what, where: nosebag
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 (many years, 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 | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 took | advmod |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nosebag | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nosebag | nosebag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | many years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not take down | past | the soldier | soldier's nosebag | down property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosebag=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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