Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 39
So the tub sailed on the open sea, and the boisterous winds carried and bore it to a distant shore.
Who acts: tub, boisterous winds · What happens: sail, carry, bear · To what, where: open sea, tub
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 (tub, boisterous winds), 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 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tub | det |
| 3 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sea | amod |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winds | det |
| 12 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 winds | amod |
| 13 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sailed | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bore | cc |
| 16 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bore | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 20 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shore | amod |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bore | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the tub | the open sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the boisterous winds | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bear | past | the boisterous winds not said here | tub | to a distant shore | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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