Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 159
And at last he came to the Sister of the Sun. She gave him meat and drink and adopted him as a son.
Who acts: Iván, Death · What happens: come, give, adopt · To what, where: last, meat, Iván
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, Death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Sister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sister | det |
| 8 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sun. | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sun. | det |
| 11 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sister | nmod |
| 12 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drink | cc |
| 17 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meat | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 adopted | cc |
| 19 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 adopted | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 son | det |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 adopted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Iván | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Death | meat and drink | Iván | to the Sister of the Sun. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient meat=Theme | ||
| 3 | adopt | past | Death not said here | Iván | as a son | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as son=Attribute |
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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