Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 78

Then Marýshko the son of Parán looked out into the open field, and he recognised Alyósha Popóvich, and he said, “I can see the knightly gait and youthful step of Alyósha Popóvich.

Who acts: Marýshko · What happens: look out, recognise, say, see, step · To what, where: open field, Alyósha, knightly gait · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Marýshko), 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	7 looked	advmod
2	Marýshko	Marýshko	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 looked	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Marýshko	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Parán	case
6	Parán	Parán	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 looked	compound:prt
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 field	amod
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 recognised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 recognised	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 recognised	nsubj
16	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	conj
17	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 recognised	obj
18	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Alyósha	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gait	det
29	knightly	knightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gait	amod
30	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 step	cc
32	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 step	amod
33	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gait	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Alyósha	case
35	Alyósha	Alyósha	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 step	nmod
36	Popóvich	Popóvich	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Alyósha	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look out	past	Marýshko		the open field	then	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	recognise	past	Marýshko	Alyósha			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alyósha=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Marýshko				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see in a quote	can	Marýshko	the knightly gait and youthful step of Alyósha			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gait=Stimulus
5	step in a quote			Alyósha			nom step «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 78

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 78