Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 71
Then the soldier took a drink and stood and waited on eventualities.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: take, stand, wait · To what, where: drink, eventualities
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 (soldier), 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 | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drink | det |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waited | cc |
| 10 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 eventualities | case |
| 12 | eventualities | eventuality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 waited | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the soldier | a drink | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the soldier not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | the soldier not said here | eventualities | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on eventuality=Location |
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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