Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 112
Then inquiries were set going how this might be, and every one was astonished how he could get to Jerusalem and back so fast.
Who acts: this, one, archimandrite · What happens: set, go, be, get · To what, where: inquiries, Jerusalem
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 (this, one, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 set | xcomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 be | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 be | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 astonished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 astonished | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 astonished | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | cop |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 get | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 astonished | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Jerusalem | case |
| 21 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 back | cc |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 get | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 fast | advmod |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 get | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | inquiries | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | be | might | this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | every one | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | could | archimandrite | Jerusalem | fast property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to jerusalem=Result |
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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