Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 11
Iván went into the church and began to read the Psalter, and after lighting the third candle, lay down on the right-hand side of the grave.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: go, begin, read, light, lay down · To what, where: church, Psalter, third candle, hand side
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 (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 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 church | det |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 read | mark |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Psalter | det |
| 11 | Psalter | Psalter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 read | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 lighting | mark |
| 15 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 lay | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 candle | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 candle | amod |
| 18 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lighting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighting | punct |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 read | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hand | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 right | punct |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | compound |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 grave | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 grave | det |
| 30 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iván | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Iván not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | the Psalter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic | ||||
| 4 | light | gerund | the third candle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product | |||||
| 5 | lay down | infinitive | Iván not said here | the hand side of the grave | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
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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