Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 69
He stood between his horse’s feet and, turning round to the other side from there, smote Túgarin with his steel knife under his right breast, and threw Túgarin from his good horse.
Who acts: ALYÓSHA · What happens: stand, turn round, smote, throw · To what, where: feet, other side, Túgarin
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 stood | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 turning | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turning | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 there | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 side | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smote | punct |
| 19 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turning | conj |
| 20 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 smote | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 knife | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 knife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knife | compound |
| 24 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smote | obl |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 breast | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 breast | nmod:poss |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 breast | amod |
| 28 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knife | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 threw | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 threw | cc |
| 31 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 32 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 threw | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 horse | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 horse | nmod:poss |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 horse | amod |
| 36 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 threw | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | ALYÓSHA = alyósha | ALYÓSHA's horse's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | turn round | gerund | ALYÓSHA = alyósha not said here | the other side | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | smote | infinitive | ALYÓSHA = alyósha not said here | Túgarin | with ALYÓSHA's steel knife under ALYÓSHA's right breast | tree rules | |||
| 4 | throw | past | Túgarin | from ALYÓSHA's good horse | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent túgarin=Theme from horse=Initial_Location |
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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