Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 125
The attendants ran to the smith, laid hold of him, and took him to the gallows.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: run, take, hold · To what, where: thing, gallows
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants), 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 attendants | det |
| 2 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 smith | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smith | det |
| 6 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hold | punct |
| 8 | laid | laid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hold | amod |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smith | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hold | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 gallows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gallows | det |
| 18 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the attendants | to the smith result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to smith=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the attendants not said here | thing | the gallows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gallows=Destination | |||
| 3 | hold | thing | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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