Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 115
The bones caught one girl up, and broke her across their knees.
Who acts: bones · What happens: catch up, break · To what, where: one girl, wife, knees
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 girl | nummod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 caught | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 broke | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 broke | cc |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broke | obj |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 knees | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broke | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | the bones | one girl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | the bones not said here | wife | bones's knees | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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