Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 43
When they arrived at the island of the bricks, they loaded all the vessels, and there were many ships, and they excavated the entire island.
Who acts: things, many ships · What happens: arrive, load, be, excavate · To what, where: island, vessels, entire island
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 (things, many ships), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loaded | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bricks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bricks | det |
| 9 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 island | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loaded | nsubj |
| 12 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 vessels | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessels | det |
| 15 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 loaded | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loaded | conj |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ships | amod |
| 21 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 excavated | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 excavated | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 excavated | nsubj |
| 25 | excavated | excavate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 loaded | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 island | det |
| 27 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 island | amod |
| 28 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 excavated | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | things = thing | the island of the bricks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | load | past | things = thing | all vessels | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | many ships | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | excavate | past | things = thing | the entire island | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent island=Location |
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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