Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 20
I began to chase after him, and arrived here.”
Who acts: I · What happens: begin, chase, arrive
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 chase | mark |
| 4 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chase | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arrived | cc |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 arrived | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chase | to-infinitive | I not said here | after bird | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | I not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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