Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 42
He had thrown himself for sheer grief into the water.
Who acts: snake · What happens: throw · To what, where: snake, water
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 (snake), 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 | 3 thrown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrown | aux |
| 3 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thrown | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 6 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grief | compound |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrown | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · perfect | snake | snake | into the water result; for sheer grief | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into water=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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