Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 10
So he built himself an _izbá_,[43] and he lived in it.
Who acts: Cock · What happens: build, live · To what, where: Cock, izbá
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock), 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 built | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 built | obj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 izbá | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 izbá | punct |
| 7 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 43 | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 43 | punct |
| 11 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 built | parataxis |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 43 | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Cock | Cock | a izbá obj; 43 parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary izbá=Product | |||
| 2 | live | past | Cock | izbá | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
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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