Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 96
Once a carpenter was going home late at night from a strange village: he had been at a jolly feast at a friend’s house.
Who acts: carpenter · What happens: go, be · To what, where: strange village, jolly feast
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 (carpenter), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carpenter | det |
| 3 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 going | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 village | amod |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 feast | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feast | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 feast | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 feast | cop |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 feast | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 20 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feast | amod |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 village | acl:relcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 friend | det |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 friend | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | a carpenter | a strange village | night | home, late property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from village=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | carpenter | a strange village not said here | a jolly feast | at a friend's house | 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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