Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 87
So he washed and dressed, prayed to God, took his long pike and went into the open courtyard.
Who acts: horse · What happens: wash, dress, pray, take, go · To what, where: God, long pike, open courtyard
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 (horse), 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 | _ | 3 washed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 washed | nsubj |
| 3 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dressed | cc |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayed | punct |
| 7 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 God | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pike | nmod:poss |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pike | amod |
| 14 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 courtyard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 courtyard | det |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 courtyard | amod |
| 20 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | horse | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dress | past | horse not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pray | past | horse not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | take | past | horse not said here | horse's long pike | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pike=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go | past | horse not said here | the open courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_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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