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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 2

Then the hunter looked, and in front of him there was a stump on the wood path, and a Peasant stood on the stump and was cleaning his bast shoe.

Who acts: hunter, stump, Peasant · What happens: look, be, stand, clean · To what, where: front, stump, bast shoe

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 (hunter, stump, Peasant), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctcccaseoblcasenmodexplconjdetnsubjcasedetcompoundnmodpunctccdetnsubjconjcasedetoblccauxconjnmod:posscompoundobjpunctrootThenADVtheDEThunterNOUNlookedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJinADPfrontNOUNofADPhimPRONtherePRONwasVERBaDETstumpNOUNonADPtheDETwoodNOUNpathNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETPeasantNOUNstoodVERBonADPtheDETstumpNOUNandCCONJwasAUXcleaningVERBhisPRONbastNOUNshoeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 lookedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 hunterdet
3hunterhunterNOUNNumber=Sing4 lookednsubj
4lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5,,PUNCT_12 waspunct
6andandCCONJ_12 wascc
7ininADP_8 frontcase
8frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing12 wasobl
9ofofADP_10 himcase
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 frontnmod
11theretherePRONPronType=Dem12 wasexpl
12wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 lookedconj
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 stumpdet
14stumpstumpNOUNNumber=Sing12 wasnsubj
15ononADP_18 pathcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 pathdet
17woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing18 pathcompound
18pathpathNOUNNumber=Sing14 stumpnmod
19,,PUNCT_23 stoodpunct
20andandCCONJ_23 stoodcc
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 Peasantdet
22PeasantpeasantNOUNNumber=Sing23 stoodnsubj
23stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 lookedconj
24ononADP_26 stumpcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 stumpdet
26stumpstumpNOUNNumber=Sing23 stoodobl
27andandCCONJ_29 cleaningcc
28wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 cleaningaux
29cleaningcleanVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part23 stoodconj
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 shoenmod:poss
31bastbastNOUNNumber=Sing32 shoecompound
32shoeshoeNOUNNumber=Sing29 cleaningobj
33..PUNCT_4 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastthe hunterthenvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2bepasta stump on the wood pathfront of hunter; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3standpasta Peasantthe stumpvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location
4cleanpast · progressivea Peasant not said herestump's bast shoevn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

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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