Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 99
And from there I went straight and I took the mighty Nightingale Robber alive and dragged him along at my steel stirrup.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, take, drag · To what, where: mighty Nightingale, Nightingale, steel stirrup
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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 there | case |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nightingale | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Nightingale | amod |
| 12 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nightingale | flat |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 took | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dragged | cc |
| 16 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dragged | obj |
| 18 | along | along | ADV | _ | 16 dragged | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 stirrup | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 stirrup | nmod:poss |
| 21 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stirrup | compound |
| 22 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dragged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | straight property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from there=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I | the mighty Nightingale | alive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument nightingale=Destination | |||
| 3 | drag | past | I not said here | Nightingale | my steel stirrup | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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