Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 109
Then they went out of the palace, and the Cossack turned his keg to the left, and there was no sign of the palace.
Who acts: bread, Cossack, sign · What happens: go out, turn, be, sign · To what, where: palace, keg, left
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 (bread, Cossack, sign), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cossack | det |
| 11 | Cossack | Cossack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 keg | nmod:poss |
| 14 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 left | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 left | det |
| 17 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 sign | det |
| 23 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sign | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | bread | the palace | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the Cossack | Cossack's keg | the left | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent keg=Theme to left=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | be | past | no sign of the palace | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sign | the palace | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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