Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 57
Then he sat down and wept, and became melancholy, and sat down on a stone and went to sleep.
Who acts: horse · What happens: sit down, weep, become, go · To what, where: melancholy, stone, sleep
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 (horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sat | cc |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sat | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | horse | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | horse not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | past | horse not said here | melancholy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | horse not said here | a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 5 | go | past | horse not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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