Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 10

But, under the bridge, a son was bathing his sick father, and the poor man fell plump on the old man and drowned him.

Who acts: bridge, poor man · What happens: bath, fall, drown · To what, where: sick father, plump, man

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge, poor man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 bathing	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bridge	punct
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 bridge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bathing	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bridge	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 son	det
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bathing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bathing	aux
10	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bathing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bathing	parataxis
20	plump	plump	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 man	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drowned	cc
26	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drowned	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bathing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bath	past · progressive	the bridge	bridge's sick father	a son nsubj	tree rules
2	fall	past	the poor man	plump	on the old man	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient plump=Result
3	drown	past	the poor man not said here	man		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 21, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 10