Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 127
So he went to the river and lay down on the shore, in the boat.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: go, lay down · To what, where: river, shore
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 (peasant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shore | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boat | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boat | det |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | peasant | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | peasant not said here | the shore | in the boat; down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination |
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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