Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 170
He could struggle and fight it out, Egóri could, and so he did; but it was all no good.
Who acts: GIPSY, stirrup · What happens: struggle, fight out, do, be · To what, where: stirrup
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 (GIPSY, stirrup), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struggle | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 struggle | aux |
| 3 | struggle | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fight | cc |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 struggle | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 fight | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 could | punct |
| 9 | Egóri | Egóri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 struggle | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 did | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 could | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 good | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 good | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 good | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 good | cop |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 good | advmod |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 good | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 struggle | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struggle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | could | GIPSY | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight out | infinitive | GIPSY not said here | stirrup | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | past | GIPSY | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | stirrup | all, good property | tree rules |
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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