Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 48
From all countries round he went and hired cattle, and every one helped him to feed the eagle.
Who acts: Iván, one · What happens: go, hire, help, feed · To what, where: countries, cattle, Iván, eagle
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 (Iván, one), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 countries | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 countries | det |
| 3 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 went | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hired | cc |
| 8 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hired | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 helped | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 helped | nsubj |
| 14 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 helped | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 feed | mark |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 helped | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eagle | det |
| 19 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Iván | all countries | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hire | past | Iván not said here | cattle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | past | every one | Iván | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | the eagle | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient |
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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