Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 141
The wizard drank and drank, walked about and walked about, and grew angry, drove all the guests and the family out of the _izbá_,[2] scattered all the wedding guests, took out two bladders and an awl, pricked the hands of the bride and bridegroom and drew their blood, filling the bladders with the blood.
Who acts: wizard · What happens: drink, walk, grow, drive, scatter, take out · To what, where: guests, izbá, wedding guests, two bladders, hands, blood
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 (wizard), 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 | 2 wizard | det |
| 2 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drank | cc |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walked | punct |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 walked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walked | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drank | parataxis |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drove | punct |
| 17 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 guests | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guests | det |
| 20 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drove | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 family | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 family | det |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guests | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 izbá | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 izbá | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 izbá | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 izbá | punct |
| 28 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drove | obl |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 drove | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 scattered | punct |
| 31 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 32 2 | punct |
| 32 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 scattered | discourse |
| 33 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 32 2 | punct |
| 34 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | conj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 guests | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 guests | det |
| 37 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 guests | compound |
| 38 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 scattered | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 took | punct |
| 40 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 scattered | conj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 took | compound:prt |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 bladders | nummod |
| 43 | bladders | bladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 took | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 awl | cc |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 awl | det |
| 46 | awl | awl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bladders | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 pricked | punct |
| 48 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 took | parataxis |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 hands | det |
| 50 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 pricked | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 bride | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 bride | det |
| 53 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 hands | nmod |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 bridegroom | cc |
| 55 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 bride | conj |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 drew | cc |
| 57 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 pricked | conj |
| 58 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 blood | nmod:poss |
| 59 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 drew | obj |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 filling | punct |
| 61 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 drew | advcl |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 bladders | det |
| 63 | bladders | bladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 filling | obj |
| 64 | with | with | ADP | _ | 66 blood | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 blood | det |
| 66 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 filling | obl |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the wizard | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | the wizard not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | drive | past | all guests and the family | the izbá | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guest=Theme out izbá=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | scatter | past | all wedding guests | 2 discourse | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent guest=Destination | ||||
| 8 | take out | past | two bladders and a awl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme | |||||
| 9 | prick | past | the hands of the bride and bridegroom | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Patient | |||||
| 10 | draw | past | bride's blood | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | |||||
| 11 | fill | gerund | the bladders | with the blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient with blood=Instrument |
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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