Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 120
Only the wild peoples became dispersed and ran away from him.
Who acts: wild peoples · What happens: become, disperse, run away
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild peoples), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 peoples | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peoples | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 peoples | amod |
| 4 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the wild peoples | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disperse | participle | the wild peoples not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | run away | past | the wild peoples not said here | from war; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory |
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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