Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 63
And Ilyá Múromets stopped his knightly horse, took a tempered dart and set it on his strong bow.
Who acts: Ilyá Múromets · What happens: stop, take, temper, set · To what, where: knightly horse, tempered dart, horse, strong bow
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stopped | cc |
| 2 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Múromets | compound |
| 3 | Múromets | múromet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 horse | amod |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dart | det |
| 11 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dart | amod |
| 12 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 bow | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bow | nmod:poss |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bow | amod |
| 19 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Ilyá Múromets | Ilyá's knightly horse | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Ilyá Múromets not said here | a tempered dart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | temper | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Ilyá Múromets not said here | horse | Ilyá's strong bow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on bow=Destination |
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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