Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 158
He slew many people with the sword, and yet more did his horse trample down.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: slay, do, trample · To what, where: many people, horse trample
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slew | nsubj |
| 2 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 slew | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 did | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slew | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 trample | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trample | compound |
| 15 | trample | trample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 did | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | Iván | many people | with the sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent people=Patient with sword=Instrument | |||
| 2 | do | past | Iván not said here | Iván's horse trample | yet | down property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trample=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | trample | Iván | nom trample «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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