Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 24
Svyatogór the knight lay down in that tomb as if it had been built for him.
Who acts: Svyatogór · What happens: lie down, build · To what, where: tomb
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 | Svyatogór | Svyatogór | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Svyatogór | appos |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tomb | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tomb | det |
| 8 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 built | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 built | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 built | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 built | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 built | aux:pass |
| 14 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lay | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 built | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Svyatogór | that tomb | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tomb=Location | |||
| 2 | build | past · perfect · passive | tomb | for SVYATOGÓR = svyatogór | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for he=Beneficiary |
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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