Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 7
He then set to wandering in the streets, and everywhere it was the same—not a single live soul to be seen!
Who acts: soldier, stone · What happens: set, wonder, be, see · To what, where: streets
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 (soldier, stone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 wandering | mark |
| 5 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 set | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 streets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 streets | det |
| 8 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandering | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 same | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 same | cc |
| 11 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 same | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 same | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 same | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | conj |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 soul | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 soul | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 soul | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soul | amod |
| 20 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soul | amod |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 same | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 soul | acl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | soldier | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | soldier not said here | the streets | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | stone | a single live soul obl; everywhere, same property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | stone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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