Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 121
They unharnessed the horse, and the peasant sat in the carriage and the _boyár_ walked on.
Who acts: goods, peasant, boyár _ · What happens: unharness, sit, walk on · To what, where: horse, carriage
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 (goods, peasant, boyár _), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 unharnessed | nsubj |
| 2 | unharnessed | unharness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 unharnessed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 unharnessed | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 carriage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carriage | det |
| 12 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 _ | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 _ | punct |
| 16 | boyár | boyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 _ | compound |
| 17 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sat | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 unharnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unharness | past | goods | the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the peasant | the carriage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in carriage=Location | ||||
| 3 | walk on | past | the boyár _ | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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