Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 108
An archimandrite one day got up for matins; and, whilst laving his hands, saw an unclean spirit in the Holy Water, seized him and crossed him.
Who acts: archimandrite · What happens: get up, lave, see, seize, cross · To what, where: hands, unclean spirit, Holy Water, archimandrite
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archimandrite), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 archimandrite | det |
| 2 | archimandrite | archimandrite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 archimandrite | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 matins | case |
| 8 | matins | matin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 13 laving | mark |
| 13 | laving | lave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 saw | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laving | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laving | punct |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spirit | det |
| 19 | unclean | unclean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spirit | amod |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Water | det |
| 23 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 24 Water | compound |
| 24 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 spirit | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seized | punct |
| 26 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seized | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 crossed | cc |
| 29 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seized | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 crossed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | a archimandrite one day | for matins | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for matin=Source | ||||
| 2 | lave | gerund | archimandrite's hands | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | past | a unclean spirit | the Holy Water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | archimandrite | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cross | past | archimandrite | vn crane-40.3.2 «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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