Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 113
So the horse raised himself from the earth and flew over the hostile host.
Who acts: horse · What happens: raise, fly · To what, where: horse, earth, hostile host
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 | _ | 4 raised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 raised | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 flew | cc |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 host | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 host | det |
| 13 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 host | amod |
| 14 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the horse | horse | the earth | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the horse not said here | the hostile host | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over host=Location |
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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