Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 71
So they sailed on for three days after this; and on the third day they landed on an island, and they saw a great mass of bricks.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: sail on, land, see · To what, where: island, great mass
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 (robbers), 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 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 sailed | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sailed | obl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 days | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 landed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 landed | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 landed | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 landed | nsubj |
| 17 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 landed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mass | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mass | amod |
| 27 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bricks | case |
| 29 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 mass | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail on | past | robbers = robber | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | land | past | robbers = robber | a island | day | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | past | robbers = robber | a great mass of bricks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus |
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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