Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 36
So they wrangled and argued, and at last agreed to go each his own way.
Who acts: lightnings · What happens: wrangle, argue, agree, go · To what, where: last, own way
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 (lightnings), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wrangled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrangled | nsubj |
| 3 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 argued | cc |
| 5 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrangled | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 agreed | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 agreed | obl |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrangled | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 agreed | xcomp |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 way | det |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrangle | past | lightnings = lightning | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | past | lightnings = lightning not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | lightnings = lightning not said here | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lightnings = lightning not said here | hail's own way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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