Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 9
And suddenly mountains grew up everywhere, and their summits and peaks pierced into the skies, and there were so many of them that no man could count them.
Who acts: mountains, summits, many, man · What happens: grow up, pierce, be, count · To what, where: brush
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 (mountains, summits, many, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 grew | advmod |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 grew | compound:prt |
| 6 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 grew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pierced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pierced | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 summits | nmod:poss |
| 10 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pierced | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 peaks | cc |
| 12 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 summits | conj |
| 13 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grew | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 skies | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skies | det |
| 16 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pierced | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 were | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 many | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 were | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 many | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 count | mark |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 count | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 count | aux |
| 29 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 many | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 count | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | mountains | everywhere, suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pierce | participle | brush's summits and peaks | into the skies | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into sky=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | many of brush | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | count | could | no man | brush | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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