Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 3
They met in combat, greeted each other and set at each other with their lances.
Who acts: They · What happens: meet, greet, set · To what, where: combat, each
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 (They), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 combat | case |
| 4 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 greeted | punct |
| 6 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 met | parataxis |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 greeted | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 greeted | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 set | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lances | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lances | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | They | combat | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | participle | each | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set | present | each | with their lances | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at each=Destination |
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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