Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 137
Then the poor man decided to tie the wood to the horse’s tail.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: decide, tie · To what, where: wood
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 (poor man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 decided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 decided | nsubj |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tie | mark |
| 7 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decided | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tie | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tail | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tie | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the poor man | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tie not said to happen | to-infinitive | the poor man not said here | the wood | to the horse's tail | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent wood=Patient to tail=Co-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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