Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 130
So they burst on the boat, found Iván, and tore him into tiny bits.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: burst, find, tore · To what, where: boat, Iván, wheel, tiny bits
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 (maidens), 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 burst | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 burst | conj |
| 9 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tore | cc |
| 12 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tore | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 bits | case |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bits | amod |
| 16 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tore | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | present | maidens = maiden | the boat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on boat=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | maidens = maiden not said here | Iván | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tore | past | maidens = maiden not said here | wheel | tiny bits | 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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