Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 117
They had discharged the soldier home, and he was going on his road, it may be far, it may be a short way, and he at last was nearing his village.
Who acts: cocks, husband, soldier · What happens: discharge, go, be, near · To what, where: soldier, road, short way, village
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cocks, husband, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discharged | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discharged | aux |
| 3 | discharged | discharge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discharged | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 discharged | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 going | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 discharged | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 road | nmod:poss |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 far | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 far | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 far | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 far | cop |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 going | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 far | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 way | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 way | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 way | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nearing | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 nearing | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 nearing | nsubj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 he | nmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 nearing | aux |
| 33 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 discharged | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 village | nmod:poss |
| 35 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nearing | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discharged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discharge | past · perfect | cocks = cock | the soldier | home property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | husband | husband's road | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | may | soldier | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | may | soldier | a short way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | near | past · progressive | husband | husband's village | tree rules |
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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