Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 18
“I was engaged as sentry in the imperial garden, and a big bird came and flew round the trees and shattered them.
Who acts: big bird · What happens: engage, come, fly, shatter · To what, where: soldier, imperial garden, trees
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 (big bird), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 engaged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 engaged | aux:pass |
| 4 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 sentry | case |
| 6 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 9 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bird | amod |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 engaged | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flew | cc |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trees | det |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flew | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shattered | cc |
| 23 | shattered | shatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shattered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage in a quote | past · passive | the soldier = soldier | the imperial garden | as sentry | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as sentry=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | a big bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | past | a big bird not said here | the trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shatter in a quote | past | a big bird not said here | trees = tree | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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