Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 76
There there is a mangy foal who will be rolling in the dung: steal him; and, at the deep of midnight, leave the house.”
Who acts: mangy foal, deep · What happens: be, roll, steal, leave · To what, where: dung, Bába, house
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 (mangy foal, deep), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 foal | det |
| 5 | mangy | mangy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 foal | amod |
| 6 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 rolling | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 rolling | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rolling | aux |
| 10 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 foal | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dung | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dung | det |
| 13 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rolling | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 steal | punct |
| 15 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rolling | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 steal | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 leave | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deep | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 deep | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 deep | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leave | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 midnight | case |
| 24 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deep | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deep | punct |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leave | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a mangy foal | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | future · progressive | a mangy foal | the dung | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dung=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | steal | infinitive | a mangy foal not said here | Bába | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the deep of midnight | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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