Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 70
And there lay on the field an army of a great host conquered.
What happens: lay, conquer · To what, where: army, field, great host
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 lay | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 host | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 host | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 host | amod |
| 12 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 army | nmod |
| 13 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 host | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a army of a great host | the field; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme on field=Destination | ||||
| 2 | conquer | participle | a great host not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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