Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 3
The recruiting-sergeant came round and took the elder brother.
Who acts: recruiting sergeant · What happens: come round, take · To what, where: elder brother
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 (recruiting sergeant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sergeant | det |
| 2 | recruiting | recruiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sergeant | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 recruiting | punct |
| 4 | sergeant | sergeant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | past | the recruiting sergeant | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the recruiting sergeant not said here | the elder brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination |
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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