Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 98
“From Múrom by the city of Chernígov, and under the walls of Chernígov I routed a Saracen host too many to count, and I relieved the city of Chernígov.
Who acts: Múrom, Prince · What happens: rout, count, relieve · To what, where: Saracen host, city
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 (Múrom, Prince), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Múrom | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Múrom | case |
| 3 | Múrom | Múrom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 routed | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Múrom | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Chernígov | case |
| 8 | Chernígov | Chernígov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walls | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walls | cc |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Múrom | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Chernígov | case |
| 15 | Chernígov | Chernígov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 walls | nmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 routed | nsubj |
| 17 | routed | rout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 host | det |
| 19 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 host | compound |
| 20 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 routed | obj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 many | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 host | amod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 count | mark |
| 24 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 many | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 relieved | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 relieved | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 relieved | nsubj |
| 28 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 routed | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 relieved | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Chernígov | case |
| 32 | Chernígov | Chernígov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 city | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 routed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rout in a quote | past | Múrom by the city of Chernígov under the walls of Chernígov | a Saracen host | I nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | count in a quote | to-infinitive | Múrom by the city of Chernígov under the walls of Chernígov not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | relieve in a quote | past | the Prince = prince | the city of Chernígov | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus city=Experiencer |
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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