Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 88
His cloak was white, and his horse and the reins: and it became light.
Who acts: cloak · What happens: be, become
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 (cloak), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 white | cop |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horse | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 horse | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reins | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reins | det |
| 11 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 horse | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 white | conj |
| 16 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | knight's cloak | knight's horse and the reins parataxis; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | cloak | light 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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