Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 38
Nikíta the tanner fought the grisly worm some time, maybe long, maybe short, and at last got him under.
Who acts: Nikíta tanner · What happens: fight, get · To what, where: grisly worm, worm, last
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 tanner), 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 | Nikíta | Nikíta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tanner | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tanner | det |
| 3 | tanner | tanner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 worm | det |
| 6 | grisly | grisly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 worm | amod |
| 7 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 11 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 fought | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 short | punct |
| 14 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 15 short | advmod |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 long | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obl |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the Nikíta tanner | the grisly worm | time | long property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | get | past | worm | last | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset |
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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