Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 69
One day he did not come into the smithy, and left his underling to do the work; and it was all done.
Who acts: master · What happens: not come, leave, do · To what, where: smithy, underling, work
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 (master), 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 | 6 come | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 smithy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smithy | det |
| 9 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 underling | nmod:poss |
| 14 | underling | underling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 done | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 done | advmod |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 come | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · do-support | master | the smithy | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into smithy=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past | master not said here | master's underling | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent underling=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | master not said here | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | work | all property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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