Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 101
Iván returned to his ship, and he was sad and disheartened.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: return, be, dishearten
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 (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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ship | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sad | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sad | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sad | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sad | cop |
| 10 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 returned | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 disheartened | cc |
| 12 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sad | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Iván | to Iván's ship result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Iván | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dishearten | past | Iván not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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