Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 50
When Nikíta had done this feat, he demanded no reward for it, but went home and went on tanning.
Who acts: Nikíta, NIKÍTA · What happens: do, demand, go · To what, where: feat, reward, tanning
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, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | Nikíta | Nikíta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 demanded | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 feat | det |
| 6 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 demanded | nsubj |
| 9 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 reward | det |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 demanded | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reward | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 demanded | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 tanning | case |
| 21 | tanning | tanning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Nikíta | this feat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta | no reward | for reward | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reward=Precondition | |||
| 3 | go | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | NIKÍTA = nikíta not said here | tanning | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tanning=Location |
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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