Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 58
So the Cossack thrust his pike into the flame and leapt to avoid the great heat.
Who acts: Cossack thrust · What happens: leapt, avoid · To what, where: great heat
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 thrust), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 leapt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thrust | det |
| 3 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrust | compound |
| 4 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leapt | nsubj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pike | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrust | appos |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 flame | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flame | det |
| 9 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrust | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leapt | cc |
| 11 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 avoid | mark |
| 13 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leapt | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heat | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heat | amod |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 avoid | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | infinitive | the Cossack thrust into the flame | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | the Cossack thrust into the flame not said here | the great heat | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent heat=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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