Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 34
He took thirty _puds_ of hemp, tarred it, and swathed himself in it in order that the dragon might find him a hard morsel, and then set out.
Who acts: NIKÍTA, dragon · What happens: take, tar, swathe, find, set out · To what, where: thirty, TANNER, NIKÍTA
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (NIKÍTA, dragon), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | _ | _ | ADP | _ | 5 puds | case |
| 5 | puds | pud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 hemp | punct |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hemp | case |
| 8 | hemp | hemp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puds | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tarred | punct |
| 10 | tarred | tar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tarred | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swathed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swathed | cc |
| 14 | swathed | swathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 swathed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swathed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 order | case |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swathed | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dragon | det |
| 22 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 swathed | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 morsel | det |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 morsel | amod |
| 28 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 set | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 set | advmod |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 set | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta | thirty | _ puds and hemp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirty=Theme | |||
| 2 | tar | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta not said here | TANNER | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | swathe | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta not said here | NIKÍTA = nikíta | in order; in TANNER | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination in it=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | might | the dragon | NIKÍTA = nikíta | a hard morsel obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme morsel=Attribute | |||
| 5 | set out | infinitive | NIKÍTA = nikíta not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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