Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 139
And so once more the peasant set out on the road, and once more met Egóri.
What happens: set out, meet · To what, where: road, Egóri
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 set | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 set | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 peasant | det |
| 6 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 met | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 met | advmod |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 17 | Egóri | Egóri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | Egóri | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egóri=Co-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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