Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 141
Off they went and ran and ran, and ran the Yagá-Búra down, saved Fílyushka and brought him home to his grandfather, who had nearly gone out of his mind with fright!
Who acts: Ram, grandfather, Fílyushka · What happens: go, run, save, bring, go out, mind · To what, where: Yagá Búra, Fílyushka, grandfather, mind
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 (Ram, grandfather, Fílyushka), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Búra | det |
| 12 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Búra | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yagá | punct |
| 14 | Búra | Búra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 Búra | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saved | punct |
| 17 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 18 | Fílyushka | Fílyushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saved | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brought | cc |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saved | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | obj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 grandfather | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gone | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 gone | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gone | aux |
| 29 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 30 gone | advmod |
| 30 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 grandfather | acl:relcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 mind | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mind | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 fright | case |
| 36 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mind | nmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ram | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Ram not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Ram not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | past | Ram not said here | the Yagá Búra | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save | past | Ram not said here | Fílyushka | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fílyushka=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | Ram not said here | Fílyushka | Fílyushka's grandfather | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to grandfather=Destination | ||
| 7 | go out | past · perfect | Fílyushka's grandfather | Fílyushka's mind with fright | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | mind | Fílyushka | with fright | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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