Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 127
Once again the Arab Prince collected a countless host, larger than before, and he besieged the King from all sides, having three mighty knights standing in front.
Who acts: Arab Prince, prince, three mighty knights · What happens: collect, besiege, have, stand · To what, where: countless host, King, sides, three mighty knights, front
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 (Arab Prince, prince, three mighty knights), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 collected | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 4 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Prince | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 collected | nsubj |
| 6 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 host | det |
| 8 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 host | amod |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collected | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 larger | punct |
| 11 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 host | amod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 larger | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 besieged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 besieged | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 besieged | nsubj |
| 17 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 collected | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 besieged | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 sides | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sides | det |
| 22 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 besieged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 having | punct |
| 24 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 besieged | advcl |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 knights | nummod |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 knights | amod |
| 27 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 having | obj |
| 28 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 knights | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 front | case |
| 30 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 standing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | the Arab Prince | a countless host | again | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme | |||
| 2 | besiege | past | prince | the King | all sides | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | prince not said here | three mighty knights | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | three mighty knights not said here | front | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=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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