Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 80
But on their way the wind arose and they sailed farther, and the robbers fell on them again and began to search for the goods.
Who acts: wind, bricks, robbers · What happens: arise, sail, fall, begin, search · To what, where: way
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 (wind, bricks, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 arose | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | nsubj |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sailed | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sailed | nsubj |
| 10 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arose | conj |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 sailed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 robbers | det |
| 15 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sailed | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 search | mark |
| 23 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 goods | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 goods | det |
| 26 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 search | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the wind | bricks's way | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location | ||||
| 2 | sail | past | bricks = brick | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the robbers | again | on bricks = brick | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location | |||
| 4 | begin | past | the robbers not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | search | to-infinitive | the robbers not said here | for the goods | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for goods=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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