Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 26
And, as Ilyá covered him over with boards, the boards by Divine grace grew as they were required.
Who acts: Ilyá, boards · What happens: cover over, grow, require · To what, where: SVYATOGÓR, boards
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 (Ilyá, boards), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 covered | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 covered | mark |
| 4 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 covered | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 covered | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 boards | case |
| 9 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boards | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boards | det |
| 12 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 grace | case |
| 14 | Divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grace | amod |
| 15 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boards | nmod |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boards | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 required | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 required | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 required | aux:pass |
| 20 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grew | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover over | past | Ilyá | SVYATOGÓR = svyatogór | with boards | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with board=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the boards by Divine grace | boards not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location board=Theme | ||||
| 3 | require | past · passive | boards = board | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
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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