Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 102
On their way they met the same devil, who returned the same reply.
Who acts: masters, same devil · What happens: meet, return · To what, where: same devil, way, same reply
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (masters, same devil), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 devil | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 devil | amod |
| 8 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 devil | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reply | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reply | amod |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | masters = master | the same devil | masters's way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | return | past | the same devil | the same reply | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme |
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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