Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 33
So the wizard was burned, and the soldier collected his dust and scattered it to the four winds.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: burn, collect, scatter · To what, where: wizard, dust
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 (soldier), 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 | _ | 5 burned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wizard | det |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burned | aux:pass |
| 5 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 collected | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 collected | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collected | nsubj |
| 10 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burned | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dust | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collected | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 scattered | cc |
| 14 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 collected | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 scattered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 winds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 winds | det |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 winds | nummod |
| 19 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 scattered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · passive | the wizard | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | collect | past | the soldier | wizard's dust | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past | the soldier not said here | dust | to the four winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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