Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 21
So Svyatogór took his young wife, cut off her unruly head, broke up her white body into four parts, and scattered them on the bare fields.
Who acts: Svyatogór · What happens: take, cut off, break up, scatter · To what, where: young wife, unruly head, white body, four parts, parts, bare fields
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 (Svyatogór), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Svyatogór | Svyatogór | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | unruly | unruly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 broke | punct |
| 14 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 broke | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 body | amod |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broke | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 parts | case |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 parts | nummod |
| 21 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 broke | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scattered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 scattered | cc |
| 24 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 scattered | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 fields | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fields | det |
| 28 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fields | amod |
| 29 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 scattered | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Svyatogór | SVYATOGÓR's young wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cut off | participle | Svyatogór not said here | wife's unruly head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break up | past | Svyatogór not said here | wife's white body | into four parts result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient into part=Result | |||
| 4 | scatter | past | Svyatogór not said here | parts = part | the bare fields | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on field=Destination |
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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