Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 64
He let the tempered dart fall on the earth, and it tore into the earth fifty feet.
Who acts: Ilyá, tempered dart, dart · What happens: let, temper, fall, tore · To what, where: earth, fifty feet
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, tempered dart, dart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dart | det |
| 4 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dart | amod |
| 5 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tore | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tore | nsubj |
| 13 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tore | obl |
| 17 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 feet | nummod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tore | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Ilyá | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | temper | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fall | present | the tempered dart | the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 4 | tore | past | dart | fifty feet | the earth | tree rules |
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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