Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
For she ran to her dun cow’s right foot, bowed down, and ate, and drank, and went about all day long splendidly attired.
Who acts: Márya · What happens: run, bow down, eat, drink, go about, attire · To what, where: right foot
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 (Márya), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 ran | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ate | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cow | compound |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 cow | case |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foot | amod |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bowed | punct |
| 12 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 foot | acl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 bowed | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drank | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drank | cc |
| 19 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ate | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ate | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 day | advmod |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 attired | advmod |
| 27 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 28 attired | advmod |
| 28 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 went | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Márya | to Márya's dun cow's right foot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to foot=Result | ||||
| 2 | bow down | participle | Márya's dun cow's right foot not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | drink | past | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | go about | past | day | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | attire | participle | long, splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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