Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 88
Then their husbands, mighty warriors, set out to face the white Russian knight.
What happens: set out, face · To what, where: husbands, white Russian knight
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 set | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warriors | punct |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warriors | amod |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 husbands | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 face | mark |
| 11 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 knight | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knight | amod |
| 14 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 knight | amod |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 face | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle · passive | sisters's husbands and mighty warriors | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | face | to-infinitive | the white Russian knight | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme knight=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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