Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 119
Then he tied the keg to his saddle, mounted his horse, and thought he would go back to the King.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: tie, mount, think, go back · To what, where: keg, horse · 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), 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 tied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 keg | det |
| 5 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 saddle | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mounted | punct |
| 10 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mounted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | Cossack | the keg | then | to Cossack's saddle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent keg=Patient to saddle=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | mount | past | Cossack not said here | Cossack's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Cossack not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back | would | Cossack | to the King result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=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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