Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 63
Once a potter was journeying on his road with his goods and dozed off.
Who acts: potter · What happens: journey, doze off · To what, where: road
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 (potter), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 journeying | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 potter | det |
| 3 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journeying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journeying | aux |
| 5 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 road | nmod:poss |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journeying | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 goods | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 goods | nmod:poss |
| 11 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 journeying | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dozed | cc |
| 13 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 journeying | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 dozed | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journeying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past · progressive | a potter | POTTER's road | with POTTER's goods | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | doze off | past | a potter not said here | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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