Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 134
Then Yagá-Búra gripped it tight, put him into the mortar, and made off, leaping over hills, and forests, and clefts; and swiftly with the pestle driving the mortar.
Who acts: Yagá, pestle · What happens: grip, put, make off, leap, drive · To what, where: hand, Fílyushka, mortar, forests, hills
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yagá, pestle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gripped | advmod |
| 2 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gripped | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Búra | punct |
| 4 | Búra | Búra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yagá | flat |
| 5 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gripped | obj |
| 7 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 5 gripped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gripped | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 mortar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mortar | det |
| 13 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gripped | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 made | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaping | punct |
| 19 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 made | advcl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 hills | case |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaping | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forests | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forests | cc |
| 24 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clefts | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 clefts | cc |
| 27 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 forests | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 pestle | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 pestle | cc |
| 30 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 33 pestle | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 pestle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pestle | det |
| 33 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gripped | parataxis |
| 34 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 pestle | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mortar | det |
| 36 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 driving | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | past | Yagá | hand | then | the pestle parataxis; tight property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Yagá not said here | Fílyushka | the mortar | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 3 | make off | participle | Yagá not said here | forests and clefts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | leap | gerund | Yagá not said here | hills | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | drive | gerund | the pestle not said here | the mortar | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme mortar=Trajectory |
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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