Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 4
So he set his horse to browse and himself mounted a thick grey oak to avoid Svyatogór the knight.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: set, browse, mount, avoid · To what, where: horse, thick grey oak, Svyatogór
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 (Iván), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | 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 | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 browse | mark |
| 7 | browse | browse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mounted | cc |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 mounted | nsubj |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oak | det |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oak | amod |
| 13 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oak | amod |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 avoid | mark |
| 16 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 mounted | advcl |
| 17 | Svyatogór | Svyatogór | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 avoid | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knight | det |
| 19 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 avoid | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Iván | Iván's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | browse | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | Iván | a thick grey oak | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient | ||||
| 4 | avoid | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | Svyatogór | the knight obj | tree rules |
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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