Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 47
So they then set out into the middle of the sea, and there Nikíta slew the dragon and drowned him.
Who acts: hands, Nikíta · What happens: set out, slay, drown · To what, where: middle, dragon
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 (hands, Nikíta), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 middle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slew | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 slew | expl |
| 15 | Nikíta | Nikíta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 slew | nsubj |
| 16 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slew | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drowned | cc |
| 20 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 slew | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drowned | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | hands = hand | the middle of the sea | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into middle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | slay | past | Nikíta | the dragon | there | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient | |||
| 3 | drown | past | Nikíta not said here | dragon | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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