Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 77
So Iván was glad, and began loading the ship with the bricks.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: be, begin, load · To what, where: ship
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 | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | advcl |
| 8 | loading | load | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 began | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loading | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bricks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bricks | det |
| 13 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loading | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iván | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Iván not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | load | gerund | Iván not said here | the ship | with the bricks | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Destination with brick=Theme |
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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