Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 80
Next day he woke up, went for a walk and a saunter, and he thought he would like to have some food, and he looked around: there was nothing to be had.
Who acts: Cossack, nothing · What happens: wake up, go, think, like, have, look around · To what, where: food · 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, nothing), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 walk | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 walk | det |
| 10 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saunter | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 saunter | det |
| 13 | saunter | saunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 like | xcomp |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 food | det |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looked | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | nsubj |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 29 | around | around | ADV | _ | 28 looked | advmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | parataxis |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 was | nsubj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 had | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 had | aux:pass |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 nothing | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Cossack | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Cossack not said here | for a walk and a saunter | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for walk=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Cossack | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like | would | Cossack | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cossack not said here | some food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 6 | look around | past | Cossack | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | have | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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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