Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 79
But on their road they came across a broad, deep pit.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: come · To what, where: road
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 (eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 road | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 road | nmod:poss |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 pit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pit | det |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pit | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 broad | punct |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pit | amod |
| 12 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | eyes = eye | eyes's road | across a broad deep pit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across pit=Initial_Location |
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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