Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 89
They had good horses, sharp lances, and they wished to hoist Ilyá aloft on their lances.
Who acts: husbands · What happens: have, wish, hoist · To what, where: good horses, Ilyá, lances
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 (husbands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lances | punct |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lances | amod |
| 7 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 horses | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wished | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wished | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wished | nsubj |
| 11 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hoist | mark |
| 13 | hoist | hoist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wished | xcomp |
| 14 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hoist | obj |
| 15 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Ilyá | amod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lances | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lances | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hoist | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | husbands = husband | good horses and sharp lances | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | husbands = husband | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hoist not said to happen | to-infinitive | husbands = husband not said here | Ilyá | husbands's lances | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ilyá=Theme on lance=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/31/89/