Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 112
But the elders got ready and mounted their horses, curled their hair, dyed their hair; and all their kinsmen gathered round.
Who acts: elders · What happens: get, mount, curl, dye, gather · To what, where: horses, hair, kinsmen
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elders), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elders | det |
| 3 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mounted | cc |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mounted | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hair | punct |
| 11 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hair | amod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horses | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dyed | punct |
| 15 | dyed | dye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mounted | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dyed | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 kinsmen | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kinsmen | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 kinsmen | det:predet |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | parataxis |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 kinsmen | acl |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 23 gathered | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the elders | elders's kinsmen parataxis; ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | the elders not said here | elders's horses and elders's curled hair | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | curl | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | dye | past | the elders not said here | elders's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 5 | gather | participle | elders's kinsmen not said here | round property | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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