Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 54
For three whole years this went on; and every day he greeted the unclean spirit with a hammer and spat on him.
Who acts: this, man · What happens: go on, greet · To what, where: unclean spirit
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 (this, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 greeted | cc |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greeted | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 greeted | nsubj |
| 13 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spirit | det |
| 15 | unclean | unclean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spirit | amod |
| 16 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greeted | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hammer | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hammer | det |
| 19 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greeted | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spat | cc |
| 21 | spat | spat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hammer | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spat | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | this | year | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | man | the unclean spirit | day | with a hammer and spat on DEVIL | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
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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