Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

The old man, who tended the children, got up early in the morning, washed himself clean, took the child on his arm and went out to the field, to the bush in the field.

Who acts: old man · What happens: tend, get up, wash, take, go out · To what, where: children, man, child, arm

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 (old man), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tended	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tended	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tended	nsubj
6	tended	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tended	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tended	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 got	compound:prt
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 got	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 washed	punct
17	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tended	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 washed	obj
19	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 washed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 washed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 child	det
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 arm	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 field	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 field	det
32	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bush	punct
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 bush	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bush	det
36	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 field	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 field	det
39	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bush	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	past	the old man	the children			who nsubj	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	get up	past	the old man not said here			morning	early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	wash	past	the old man not said here	man			clean property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	take	past	the old man not said here	the child	man's arm			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme on arm=Destination
5	go out	past	the old man not said here				to the field; to the bush in the field; out property	vn interact-36.6 «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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 36