Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 120

Donotknow slew many of that host, and even more than he slew his horse trampled down, and he left only the Arab Prince alive and ten men as a suite to see him home.

Who acts: Donotknow · What happens: slay, trample down, leave, see · To what, where: many, horse, Arab Prince, Donotknow

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 (Donotknow), 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	Donotknow	Donotknow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slew	nsubj
2	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slew	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 host	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 many	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slew	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 slew	advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 slew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slew	nsubj
13	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slew	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horse	nmod:poss
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slew	obj
16	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 slew	xcomp
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 trampled	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 left	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 left	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 left	nsubj
21	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slew	conj
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 Prince	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Prince	det
24	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Prince	amod
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 left	obj
26	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 left	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 men	cc
28	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 men	nummod
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 alive	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 suite	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 suite	det
32	suite	suite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 left	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 left	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	home	home	ADV	_	34 see	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slay	past	Donotknow	many of that host		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
2	slay	past	Donotknow	Donotknow's horse		tree rules
3	trample down	participle	Donotknow not said here			tree rules
4	leave	past	Donotknow	the Arab Prince	as a suite; alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	Donotknow not said here	Donotknow	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 120