Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 28
Then they brought the boughs into the cemetery, put them into a pile and raised the wizard out of the grave, put him on the faggots and burned him.
Who acts: cartloads · What happens: bring, put, raise, burn · To what, where: boughs, cemetery, cartloads, pile, wizard, grave
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 (cartloads), 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 | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boughs | det |
| 5 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cemetery | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cemetery | det |
| 8 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pile | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pile | det |
| 14 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 raised | cc |
| 16 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wizard | det |
| 18 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raised | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 grave | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 grave | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grave | det |
| 22 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raised | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 raised | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 faggots | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 faggots | det |
| 28 | faggots | faggot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 burned | cc |
| 30 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raised | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 burned | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | cartloads = cartload | the boughs | the cemetery | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bough=Theme into cemetery=Destination | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | cartloads = cartload not said here | cartloads = cartload | a pile | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 3 | raise | past | cartloads = cartload not said here | the wizard | the grave | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme out grave=Destination | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | cartloads = cartload not said here | wizard | the faggots | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on faggot=Destination | |||
| 5 | burn | past | cartloads = cartload not said here | wizard | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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