Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 149
But, at the other end of the town, in his own little hut, there dwelt an honourable labourer.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: honourable labourer, other end
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: 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 | _ | 18 dwelt | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | amod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dwelt | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hut | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hut | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hut | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hut | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hut | amod |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 dwelt | expl |
| 18 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 labourer | det |
| 20 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 labourer | amod |
| 21 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dwelt | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a honourable labourer | there | at the other end of the town and father's own little hut | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme labourer=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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