Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 130
Bába Yagá sat in the mortar and went by, thrusting the mortar with the pestle, and with the besom she removed every trace of her steps.
Who acts: Bába · What happens: sit, go by, thrust, remove, step · To what, where: mortar, trace
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 (Bába), 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 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bába | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mortar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mortar | det |
| 6 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thrusting | punct |
| 11 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mortar | det |
| 13 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrusting | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pestle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pestle | det |
| 16 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrusting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 removed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 removed | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 besom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 besom | det |
| 21 | besom | besom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 removed | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 removed | nsubj |
| 23 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 trace | det |
| 25 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 removed | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 steps | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 steps | nmod:poss |
| 28 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trace | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Bába | the mortar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mortar=Location | ||||
| 2 | go by | past | Bába not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | thrust | gerund | Bába not said here | the mortar | with the pestle | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Theme | |||
| 4 | remove | past | Bába | every trace of Bába's steps | with the besom | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme | |||
| 5 | step | Bába | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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