Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 76
And he threw one of the bricks on the ground, and under the clay there was a splendid jewel.
Who acts: man · What happens: throw, be · To what, where: one, splendid jewel, clay
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 threw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bricks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bricks | det |
| 7 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bricks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jewel | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 jewel | cc |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 clay | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clay | det |
| 15 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jewel | obl |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 jewel | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jewel | det |
| 19 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 jewel | amod |
| 20 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | man | one of the bricks on the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a splendid jewel | the clay | tree rules |
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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