Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 64
The shepherds drove him afar, and he went naked into his city.
Who acts: shepherds, Tsar · What happens: drive, go · To what, where: Tsar, city
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 (shepherds, Tsar), 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 shepherds | det |
| 2 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | obj |
| 5 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drove | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | conj |
| 10 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | xcomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 city | nmod:poss |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the shepherds | Tsar | afar property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Tsar | Tsar's city | naked property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location |
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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