Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 105
Ilyá Múromets swore blood brotherhood with Dobrýnya Nikítich, then they saddled their good horses and rode forth on the open fields; and they journeyed on for about three months and found no opponent worthy of their steel: they had only gone in the open field.
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, MÚROMETS · What happens: swear, saddle, ride, journey, find, go · To what, where: blood brotherhood, good horses, open fields, opponent worthy, open field
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 (Ilyá Múromets, MÚROMETS), 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 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Múromets | compound |
| 2 | Múromets | múromet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brotherhood | compound |
| 5 | brotherhood | brotherhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swore | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Dobrýnya | case |
| 7 | Dobrýnya | Dobrýnya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swore | obl |
| 8 | Nikítich | Nikítich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dobrýnya | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saddled | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 saddled | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saddled | nsubj |
| 12 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swore | parataxis |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horses | amod |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saddled | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rode | cc |
| 17 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saddled | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 rode | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 fields | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fields | det |
| 21 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fields | amod |
| 22 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rode | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 journeyed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 journeyed | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 journeyed | nsubj |
| 26 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swore | parataxis |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 26 journeyed | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 months | case |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 three | advmod |
| 30 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 months | nummod |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 journeyed | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 found | cc |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 journeyed | conj |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 worthy | det |
| 35 | opponent | opponent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 worthy | amod |
| 36 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 steel | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 steel | nmod:poss |
| 39 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 worthy | nmod |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 gone | punct |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 gone | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 gone | aux |
| 43 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 gone | advmod |
| 44 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 journeyed | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 field | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 field | det |
| 47 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 field | amod |
| 48 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gone | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | Ilyá Múromets | blood brotherhood | with Dobrýnya | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent brotherhood=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | saddle | past | MÚROMETS = múromet | MÚROMETS's good horses | then | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | |||
| 3 | ride | past | MÚROMETS = múromet not said here | the open fields | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | journey | past | MÚROMETS = múromet | month | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | MÚROMETS = múromet not said here | no opponent worthy of MÚROMETS's steel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worthy=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go | past · perfect | MÚROMETS = múromet | the open field | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=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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