Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 83
The pirates looked and were persuaded and sailed farther on, and so did Iván and the old man, and very soon arrived at a haven and stayed there.
Who acts: pirates · What happens: look, persuade, sail, do, arrive, stay · To what, where: Iván, haven
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 (pirates), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pirates | det |
| 2 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 persuaded | cc |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sailed | cc |
| 8 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuaded | conj |
| 9 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 on | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 sailed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 did | advmod |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 15 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 man | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Iván | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arrived | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arrived | cc |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 soon | advmod |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 arrived | advmod |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 haven | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 haven | det |
| 27 | haven | haven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stayed | cc |
| 29 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 arrived | conj |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 stayed | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the pirates | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | persuade | past · passive | the pirates not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | sail | past | the pirates not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | the pirates not said here | Iván and the old man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iván=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | arrive | participle | a haven | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stay | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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