Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 22
Once again the poor man took the stone out of his pocket and showed it to the judge.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: take, show · To what, where: stone, pocket, judge
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 (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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pocket | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pocket | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl | ||
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 showed | cc |
| 14 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 showed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 judge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 judge | det |
| 18 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the poor man | the stone | man's pocket | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | show | past | the poor man not said here | stone | the judge | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to judge=Recipient |
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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