Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 50
A Cossack was going on his road and way, and he arrived in the sleepy forest, and in that forest, in a glade, stood a hayrick.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: go, arrive, stand · To what, where: road, sleepy forest, hayrick, forest
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Cossack | det |
| 2 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 road | nmod:poss |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 way | cc |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrived | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 16 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 forest | amod |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stood | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 glade | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 glade | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 glade | det |
| 26 | glade | glade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forest | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forest | punct |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 arrived | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hayrick | det |
| 30 | hayrick | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | a Cossack | Cossack's road and way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Cossack | the sleepy forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Cossack not said here | a hayrick | that forest and a glade | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hayrick=Theme in forest=Destination |
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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