Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 83
They entered into a partnership and went together to look for work, and they rambled about until they came to a rich village and got work with different masters.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: enter, go together, look, ramble, come, get · To what, where: partnership, rich village, work
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 (Iván), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 partnership | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 partnership | det |
| 5 | partnership | partnership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rambled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rambled | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rambled | nsubj |
| 16 | rambled | ramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 rambled | advmod |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rambled | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 village | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 village | det |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 village | amod |
| 24 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 27 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 masters | case |
| 29 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 masters | amod |
| 30 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Iván | a partnership | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go together | past | Iván not said here | together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | for work | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ramble | past | Iván | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Iván | a rich village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | get | past | Iván not said here | work | with different masters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
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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