Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 116
Then the dog made a dash at a mare, but the mare kicked him back, and the dog died.
Who acts: dog, mare · What happens: make, kick back, die · To what, where: dash, friend
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, mare), 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 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dash | det |
| 6 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 mare | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mare | det |
| 9 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kicked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 kicked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mare | det |
| 13 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kicked | nsubj |
| 14 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kicked | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 kicked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 died | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 died | nsubj |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the dog | a dash | then | at a mare | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dash=Product | ||
| 2 | kick back | past | the mare | friend | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the dog | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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