Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 154
So Egóri went and mounted his horse, came up to the gipsy, and told him: “I shall now tell you the truth.
Who acts: Egóri, I · What happens: go, mount, come up, tell · To what, where: horse, gipsy, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Egóri, I), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Egóri | Egóri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mounted | cc |
| 5 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mounted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 gipsy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gipsy | det |
| 13 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 tell | advmod |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 truth | det |
| 26 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Egóri | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mount | past | Egóri not said here | GIPSY's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | Egóri not said here | the gipsy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gipsy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | GIPSY | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | shall | I | the truth | GIPSY | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic |
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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