Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 81
He sent this letter with one of his good companions, and himself went into foreign lands.
Who acts: son · What happens: send, go · To what, where: letter, foreign lands
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 letter | det |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 companions | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 companions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 companions | amod |
| 10 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 lands | case |
| 16 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lands | amod |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | son | this letter | with one of son's good companions | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | son | foreign lands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_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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