Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 8
One day the soldier was standing on sentry-go at the ammunition-wagons just outside the general’s quarters, and the general was giving a great dinner, and a multitude of officers and gentlemen were going to him.
Who acts: soldier, sentry, general, multitude · What happens: stand, go, give · To what, where: ammunition wagons, great dinner, general
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, sentry, general, multitude), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | aux |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 8 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sentry | punct |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 standing | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 wagons | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wagons | det |
| 13 | ammunition | ammunition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wagons | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ammunition | punct |
| 15 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | obl |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 quarters | advmod |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 21 quarters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 general | det |
| 19 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 general | case |
| 21 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 giving | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 giving | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 general | det |
| 25 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 giving | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 giving | aux |
| 27 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 standing | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dinner | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dinner | amod |
| 30 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 giving | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 going | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 going | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 multitude | det |
| 34 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 going | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 officers | case |
| 36 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 multitude | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gentlemen | cc |
| 38 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 officers | conj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 going | aux |
| 40 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 standing | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 going | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the soldier | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | sentry | the ammunition wagons | outside the general's quarters | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at wagon=Location | |||
| 3 | give | past · progressive | the general | a great dinner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | a multitude of officers and gentlemen | general | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_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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