Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 6
Some men’s cattle became bowlegged, but his master’s gambolled in the street.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: become, gamboll · To what, where: master, street
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 (cattle), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 men | case |
| 4 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | bowlegged | bowlegged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gambolled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gambolled | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gambolled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 master | case |
| 12 | gambolled | gamboll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 became | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 street | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gambolled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | some men's cattle | bowlegged property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gamboll | participle · passive | cattle's master | the street | 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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