Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 128
The glimmer in the eyes of the skulls had dimmed; the white horseman raced by: and it dawned.
Who acts: glimmer · What happens: dim, race, dawn · To what, where: glimmer, white horseman
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glimmer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 glimmer | det |
| 2 | glimmer | glimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dimmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyes | det |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glimmer | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 skulls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skulls | det |
| 8 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dimmed | aux |
| 10 | dimmed | dim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 horseman | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horseman | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horseman | amod |
| 14 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dimmed | obl |
| 15 | raced | race | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 horseman | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 raced | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 dawned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dawned | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dawned | nsubj |
| 20 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dimmed | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dimmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dim | past · perfect · passive | the glimmer in the eyes of the skulls | the white horseman obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | race | participle | the white horseman not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dawn | past | glimmer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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