Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 115
And he eats an ox at a time and he drinks a cask at a time.
Who acts: length · What happens: eat, drink · To what, where: ox, cask
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 (length), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 eats | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ox | det |
| 5 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drinks | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drinks | nsubj |
| 11 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eats | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cask | det |
| 13 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drinks | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drinks | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | length | a ox | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient | |||
| 2 | drink | present | length | a cask | time | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Patient |
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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