Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 7
On my way to you I met a white horseman, in a white cloak, on a white horse: who was he?”
Who acts: I, white horse · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: white horseman, way, horse
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, white horse), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horseman | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horseman | amod |
| 10 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cloak | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cloak | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cloak | det |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloak | amod |
| 15 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 horse | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 horse | amod |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 he | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 he | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 he | cop |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 horse | appos |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 he | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | I | a white horseman | my way to you | in a white cloak; a white horse parataxis | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a white horse | horse | tree rules |
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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