Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 4
About evening time, the Yagá-Búra came in, went straight to the bunk and took the roast meat out; ate it all up, collected all the bones, laid them out on the ground in rows, and began to roll on them.
Who acts: Yagá Búra · What happens: come in, go, take out, eat up, collect, lay out · To what, where: bunk, roast meat, meat, bones, ground
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 (Yagá Búra), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Búra | det |
| 6 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Búra | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yagá | punct |
| 8 | Búra | Búra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 bunk | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bunk | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bunk | det |
| 16 | bunk | bunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meat | det |
| 20 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meat | compound |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ate | punct |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ate | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 it | det |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 ate | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 collected | punct |
| 29 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ate | parataxis |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 bones | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bones | det |
| 32 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 collected | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 laid | punct |
| 34 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ate | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 laid | obj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 laid | compound:prt |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 ground | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ground | det |
| 39 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 laid | obl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 rows | case |
| 41 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 laid | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 began | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 began | cc |
| 44 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 roll | mark |
| 46 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 began | xcomp |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 roll | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the Yagá Búra | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Yagá Búra not said here | the bunk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bunk=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take out | past | the Yagá Búra not said here | the roast meat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat up | past | meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | collect | past | all bones | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lay out | past | bones = bone | the ground | in rows | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 7 | begin | past | the Yagá Búra not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | roll | to-infinitive | the Yagá Búra not said here | on rows = row | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
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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