Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 5
Next night the old man told Iván to lie down on the left-hand side of the Holy Gates.
Who acts: old man · What happens: tell, lie down · To what, where: Iván, hand side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 night | amod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lie | mark |
| 9 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | xcomp |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 lie | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 13 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hand | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | compound |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Gates | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Gates | det |
| 19 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 20 Gates | compound |
| 20 | Gates | Gates | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the old man | Iván | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | lie down not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | the hand side of the Holy Gates | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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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