Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 108
Ilyá Múromets set on him with his horse, and was going to try his mighty strength on him.
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets · What happens: set, go, try · To what, where: mighty strength
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), 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 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 set | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 strength | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strength | amod |
| 17 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 try | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 try | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Ilyá Múromets | on passer; with passer's horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Ilyá Múromets not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | Ilyá Múromets not said here | passer's mighty strength | on passer | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality |
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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