Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 19
Then the servant in the meantime was buying all sorts of drugs, and came back.
Who acts: servant · What happens: buy, come back, sort · To what, where: sorts, drugs
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 servant | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buying | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 meantime | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meantime | det |
| 6 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 servant | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 buying | aux |
| 8 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buying | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 drugs | case |
| 12 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 buying | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 buying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · progressive | the servant in the meantime | all sorts of drugs | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come back | past | the servant in the meantime not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sort | drugs | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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