Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 40
One day the old man was going into the church, and stood in front of a picture of the Last Judgment.
Who acts: old man · What happens: go, stand · To what, where: church, front
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 (old man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 picture | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 picture | det |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 front | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Judgment | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Judgment | det |
| 21 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Judgment | amod |
| 22 | Judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picture | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the old man | the church | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the old man not said here | front of a picture of the Last Judgment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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