Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 116
May be far, may be near, he went on and on, and arrived at another kingdom, saw the sentry-guard and asked “May I rest here?”
Who acts: youth · What happens: be, go, arrive, see, ask, rest · To what, where: kingdom, sentry guard · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 far | aux |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 far | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 near | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 near | cop |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 far | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 on | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 on | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrived | cc |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 kingdom | det |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 guard | det |
| 23 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 guard | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sentry | punct |
| 25 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 asked | cc |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 rest | punct |
| 29 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 rest | aux |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 rest | nsubj |
| 31 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 asked | ccomp |
| 32 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 rest | advmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 rest | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | may | near property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | youth | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | arrive | past | youth not said here | another kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | youth not said here | the sentry guard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | youth not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | rest in a quote | may | youth | here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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