Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 81
He reached that river, waved the cloth three times to the right; and, at once, from some strange source, a lofty, splendid bridge hung all the way over.
Who acts: Bába, river, lofty splendid bridge · What happens: reach, wave, hang · To what, where: cloth, right, way, strange source
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 (Bába, river, lofty splendid bridge), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 waved | mark |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waved | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 river | punct |
| 6 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cloth | det |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waved | obj |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waved | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 right | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 right | det |
| 13 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waved | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 hung | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hung | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 and | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 source | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 source | det |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 source | amod |
| 23 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hung | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 source | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bridge | det |
| 26 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bridge | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lofty | punct |
| 28 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bridge | amod |
| 29 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hung | nsubj |
| 30 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 way | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hung | obj |
| 34 | over | over | ADV | _ | 30 hung | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Bába | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wave | past | river | the cloth | the right | time | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme to right=Recipient | ||
| 3 | hang | past | a lofty splendid bridge | all way | some strange source | over property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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