Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 101
So the Cossack took the royal gift and set out to roam through the white world.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: take, set out, roam · To what, where: royal gift, white world
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cossack | det |
| 3 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gift | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gift | amod |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 roam | mark |
| 12 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | xcomp |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roam | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Cossack | the royal gift | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | the Cossack not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roam | to-infinitive | the Cossack not said here | the white world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory |
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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