Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 31
Then the father set sail with his goods into foreign lands, and the son sat on the counter and engaged in trade.
Who acts: father, son · What happens: set, sit, engage · To what, where: sail, foreign lands, counter, trade
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 (father, son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 goods | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 goods | nmod:poss |
| 8 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 sail | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 lands | case |
| 10 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lands | amod |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sat | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 counter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 counter | det |
| 19 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 engaged | cc |
| 21 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sat | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 trade | case |
| 23 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 engaged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the father | sail | foreign lands | then | with father's goods | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sail=Patient with goods=Instrument | |
| 2 | sit | past | the son | the counter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on counter=Location | ||||
| 3 | engage | participle | the son not said here | in trade goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in trade=Goal |
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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