Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 51
So he brought the image into the _izbá_[27] and he poured water into a vessel, washed it out, cleaned it in front of the image, and soon after went to market, bought a little lamp, and lighted it in front of the image.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: bring, pour, wash out, clean, go, buy · To what, where: image, izbá, water, vessel, front, market
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 image | det |
| 5 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 izbá | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 izbá | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 izbá | punct |
| 9 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 27 | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 27 | punct |
| 12 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 27 | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 poured | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 poured | nsubj |
| 16 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poured | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 vessel | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 vessel | det |
| 20 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poured | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 washed | punct |
| 22 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 washed | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 washed | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cleaned | punct |
| 26 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 washed | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cleaned | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cleaned | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 image | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 image | det |
| 32 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 front | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 35 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 went | advmod |
| 36 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 37 went | mark |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 market | case |
| 39 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bought | punct |
| 41 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 lamp | det |
| 43 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 lamp | amod |
| 44 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bought | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 lighted | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 lighted | cc |
| 47 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 bought | conj |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 lighted | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 front | case |
| 50 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 lighted | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 image | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 image | det |
| 53 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 front | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Iván | the image | the izbá | 27 parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent image=Theme into izbá=Destination | ||
| 2 | pour | past | Iván | water | a vessel | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into vessel=Destination | |||
| 3 | wash out | past | Iván not said here | image | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | clean | past | Iván not said here | image | front of the image | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | go | past | Iván not said here | market | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | buy | past | a little lamp | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | |||||
| 7 | light | participle | image | front of the image | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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