Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
The parents were delighted, and they seized hold of the peasant, and they pinioned him with ropes.
Who acts: parents · What happens: be, seize, pinion, hold · To what, where: hold, corner, peasant
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 (parents), 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 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seized | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | nsubj |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 peasant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasant | det |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pinioned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pinioned | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pinioned | nsubj |
| 16 | pinioned | pinion | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pinioned | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ropes | case |
| 19 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pinioned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the parents | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | parents = parent | hold of the peasant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pinion | past | parents = parent | corner | with ropes | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source | |||
| 4 | hold | the peasant | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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