Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 17

On the shore of the ocean, in the isle of Buyán, there stood a roasted ox, and behind pounded garlic: on the one side cut your meat, on the other dip deep and eat.

What happens: stand, roast, pound, cut, eat · To what, where: roasted ox, shore, meat, one side

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: 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 shore	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shore	det
3	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 ocean	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ocean	det
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shore	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 isle	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 isle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 isle	det
10	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shore	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Buyán	case
12	Buyán	Buyán	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 isle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shore	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 stood	expl
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ox	det
17	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ox	amod
18	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 garlic	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 garlic	cc
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 garlic	case
22	pounded	pound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 garlic	amod
23	garlic	garlic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 side	nummod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obl
29	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	parataxis
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 meat	nmod:poss
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dip	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 dip	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dip	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dip	amod
36	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cut	obl
37	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 dip	amod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 eat	cc
39	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 cut	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a roasted ox	the shore of the ocean and the isle of Buyán; there	behind pounded garlic	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ox=Theme on shore=Destination
2	roast	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	pound	participle				vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	cut	past	your meat	the one side	on the other dip	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Product
5	eat	present				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 17

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 17