Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 119
And the soldier appeared before him in his proper regimentals, with musket on his shoulder, as though he were rooted to the ground.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: appear, root · To what, where: proper regimentals, soldier
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 (soldier), 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 appeared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appeared | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 regimentals | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 regimentals | nmod:poss |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 regimentals | amod |
| 10 | regimentals | regimental | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 musket | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 musket | case |
| 13 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 musket | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rooted | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 rooted | mark |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 rooted | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rooted | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rooted | aux:pass |
| 22 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appeared | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rooted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the soldier | King's proper regimentals | before King | with musket on King's shoulder | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||
| 2 | root | past · passive | soldier | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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