Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 101
Then the man collected all of the cattle into the box, and the Tsar went on board and sailed on his own journey.
Who acts: man, Tsar · What happens: collect, go, sail, journey · To what, where: all, box, board, own journey
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Tsar), 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 collected | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 collected | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cattle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cattle | det |
| 8 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 all | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 box | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collected | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Tsar | det |
| 15 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 board | case |
| 18 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sailed | cc |
| 20 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 journey | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 journey | amod |
| 24 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sailed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | the man | all of the cattle | the box | then | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent all=Material into box=Product | ||
| 2 | go | past | the Tsar | board | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location | ||||
| 3 | sail | past | the Tsar not said here | man's own journey | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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