Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 97
Next day, as soon as ever the soldier had appeared at the barriers, a sentry ran out and gave him a generous honour.
Who acts: soldier, sentry · What happens: appear, run out, give · To what, where: Next day, barriers, generous honour, sentry
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), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 soon | advmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 appeared | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | mark |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 soldier | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 appeared | aux |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 barriers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 barriers | det |
| 14 | barriers | barrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 appeared | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sentry | det |
| 17 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 ran | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 honour | det |
| 24 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 honour | amod |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past · perfect | the soldier | Next day not said here | the barriers | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme | ||
| 2 | run out | past | a sentry | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | a sentry not said here | a generous honour | sentry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient honour=Theme |
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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