Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 107
So they were as guests and junketed well, and arrived into their own kingdom, reached it and began to live a life of joy enduring and to drink good mead.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, junket, arrive, reach, begin, live · To what, where: own kingdom, kingdom, life, good mead
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 were | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 guests | case |
| 5 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 junketed | cc |
| 7 | junketed | junket | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 were | conj |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 junketed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arrived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrived | cc |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 were | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kingdom | amod |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 arrived | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 life | det |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 joy | case |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 life | nmod |
| 27 | enduring | endure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 live | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drink | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 drink | mark |
| 30 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 live | conj |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 mead | amod |
| 32 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drink | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | brothers = brother | as guests | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | junket | past | brothers = brother not said here | well property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | brothers's own kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | kingdom | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | a life of joy | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||||
| 7 | endure | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | drink | to-infinitive | good mead | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=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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