Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 97
One week later the two men met once again, and set about the same argument.
Who acts: two men · What happens: meet, set
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 (two men), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 week | nummod |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 met | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 men | nummod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 met | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 met | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 met | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 argument | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 argument | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 argument | amod |
| 16 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the two men | again | late, once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the two men not said here | about the same argument | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about argument=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/97/