Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 1
In the morning they went there to collect his bones; but there Iván was, as large as life.
Who acts: they, Iván · What happens: go, collect, be · To what, where: bones
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 collect | mark |
| 8 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 collect | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 large | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 large | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 Iván | expl |
| 14 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 large | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 large | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 large | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 large | advmod |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 large | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | there | morning | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | collect | to-infinitive | they not said here | his bones | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Iván there | as life; large property | 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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