Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 135
So the peasant set out on his road a second time, and he again met Egóri, who was going to God on an errand.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: set out, meet, go · To what, where: road, Egóri, God, errand
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 (peasant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 road | nmod:poss |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 met | advmod |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 17 | Egóri | Egóri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 met | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 God | case |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 errand | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 errand | det |
| 26 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 going | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the peasant | peasant's road | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | peasant | Egóri | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egóri=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | God | a errand | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to god=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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