Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 67
Then Alyósha Popóvich got down from his saddle like a sheaf of oats, and Túgarin Zmyéyevich was almost striking Alyósha down.
Who acts: Alyósha, Túgarin · What happens: get down, strike down · To what, where: saddle, Alyósha
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 (Alyósha, Túgarin), 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 | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 saddle | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 sheaf | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sheaf | det |
| 11 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saddle | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 oats | case |
| 13 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sheaf | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 striking | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 striking | cc |
| 16 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 striking | nsubj |
| 17 | Zmyéyevich | Zmyéyevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Túgarin | flat |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 striking | aux |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 striking | advmod |
| 20 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 21 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 striking | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 striking | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | Alyósha | ALYÓSHA's saddle like a sheaf of oats | then | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | strike down | past · progressive | Túgarin | Alyósha | almost, down property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent alyósha=Instrument |
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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