Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 74
So, from sheer grief, he drank himself drunk and thought he would go out into the free world.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: drink, think, go out · To what, where: Cossack, sheer grief, free world · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 drank | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 grief | case |
| 4 | sheer | sheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grief | compound |
| 5 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drank | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grief | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drank | nsubj |
| 8 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 drank | obj |
| 10 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drank | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drank | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | Cossack | Cossack | sheer grief | drunk property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Cossack not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go out | would | Cossack | the free world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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