Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 131
And there he sat in the evening with his wife on the eve of the festival in his little hut.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: sit · To what, where: eve
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 (peasant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sat | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 sat | expl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 eve | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eve | det |
| 13 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 festival | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 festival | det |
| 16 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eve | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hut | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hut | nmod:poss |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hut | amod |
| 20 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | peasant | the eve of the festival; there | evening | with peasant's wife; in peasant's little hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on eve=Location |
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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