Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 138
One year went by, and a second, and the good youth got rather weary of the yoke.
Who acts: good youth · What happens: go by, get
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 (good youth), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | nummod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 second | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 second | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 second | det |
| 8 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 youth | amod |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 weary | advmod |
| 16 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 yoke | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 yoke | det |
| 19 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weary | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | second; year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the good youth | weary property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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