Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 107
So, they went back home, brought the _vódka_, and stepped in over the threshold.
Who acts: bones · What happens: go back, bring, step · To what, where: vódka, threshold
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 home | advmod |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vódka | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 vódka | punct |
| 11 | vódka | vódka | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 vódka | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stepped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stepped | cc |
| 15 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 threshold | case |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 threshold | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 threshold | det |
| 19 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stepped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | bones = bone | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | bones = bone not said here | the vódka | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vódka=Theme | ||||
| 3 | step | participle | bones = bone not said here | the threshold | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in threshold=Trajectory |
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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