Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 5
Ídolishche asked to eat, so they brought him an entire roasted ox and he ate it to the bones; then Ídolishche asked for drink, so they brought him a cauldron of beer; and twenty men had to bring it in.
Who acts: Ídolishche, food, twenty men · What happens: ask, eat, bring, roast, have, bring in · To what, where: entire roasted ox, Ídolishche, ox, cauldron
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 (Ídolishche, food, twenty men), 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 | Ídolishche | Ídolishche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 eat | mark |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ox | det |
| 11 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ox | amod |
| 12 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ox | amod |
| 13 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ate | nsubj |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ate | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bones | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bones | det |
| 20 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ate | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 asked | advmod |
| 23 | Ídolishche | Ídolishche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 drink | case |
| 26 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brought | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 brought | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 asked | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cauldron | det |
| 33 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brought | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 beer | case |
| 35 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cauldron | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 men | cc |
| 38 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 men | nummod |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 bring | mark |
| 42 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 had | xcomp |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 bring | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 bring | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ídolishche | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ídolishche not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | food | a entire roasted ox | Ídolishche = ídolishche | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ox=Theme | |||
| 4 | roast | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | eat | past | Ídolishche = ídolishche | ox | to the bones | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | Ídolishche | then | for drink | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | bring | past | food | a cauldron of beer | Ídolishche = ídolishche | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination cauldron=Theme | |||
| 8 | have | past | twenty men | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | bring in | to-infinitive | twenty men not said here | cauldron | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=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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