Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 102
He went on and on, and he met an ancient old man on the way: the old man answered him, “Give me food and drink, good youth!”
Who acts: Cossack, old man · What happens: go, meet, answer, give · To what, where: ancient old man, way, Cossack, food, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 met | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 answered | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Give | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Give | punct |
| 25 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 answered | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Give | iobj |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Give | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drink | cc |
| 29 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 food | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 youth | punct |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 youth | amod |
| 32 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 food | conj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 Give | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Cossack | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | Cossack | a ancient old man | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | answer speech: express | past | the old man | Cossack | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | food and drink and good youth | the old man = man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient food=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/34/102/