Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 7
Then the peasant decided to go with the brothers, to bring a further indictment against the poor man.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: decide, go, bring · To what, where: further indictment
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 (peasant), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 decided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 brothers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 indictment | det |
| 14 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 indictment | amod |
| 15 | indictment | indictment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the peasant | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the peasant not said here | with the brothers | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the peasant not said here | a further indictment | against the poor man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent indictment=Theme against man=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.
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