Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 42
Just at that time the knight, the Snake’s son, was making a raid and was ravaging all the kingdom of Prince Vladímir.
Who acts: time · What happens: make, ravage · To what, where: raid, kingdom
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 (time), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Snake | det |
| 9 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Snake | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knight | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 making | aux |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 raid | det |
| 16 | raid | raid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ravaging | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ravaging | aux |
| 19 | ravaging | ravage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 making | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 kingdom | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ravaging | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Vladímir | case |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kingdom | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | that time | a raid | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raid=Product | ||||
| 2 | ravage | past · progressive | that time not said here | all kingdom of Vladímir Prince | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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