Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 86
And when he had drunk the third, he recovered all his former strength, broke all his chains, shattered them all, all the twelve chains.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: drink, recover, break, shatter · To what, where: third, former strength, chains
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: who acts (Iván), 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 drunk | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 drunk | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drunk | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drunk | aux |
| 5 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 recovered | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 third | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 drunk | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drunk | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 recovered | nsubj |
| 10 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 strength | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strength | amod |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recovered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broke | punct |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 recovered | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 chains | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chains | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broke | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shattered | punct |
| 21 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 recovered | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shattered | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 chains | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 chains | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chains | det |
| 27 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 chains | nummod |
| 28 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shattered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · perfect | Iván | the third | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient | ||||
| 2 | recover | past | Iván | Iván's former strength | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | Iván not said here | Iván's chains | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient | ||||
| 4 | shatter | past | Iván not said here | chains = chain | all twelve chains obl | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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