Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 97
So he mounted his steed, set himself and the fair princess on it, and the lofty walls moved away from before him, and they set out on their road and way.
Who acts: Cossack, lofty walls, palace · What happens: mount, set, move away, set out · To what, where: steed, Cossack, road
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, lofty walls, palace), 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 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mounted | advcl |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 set | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 princess | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 princess | amod |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 himself | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 princess | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 moved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 moved | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 walls | det |
| 18 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 walls | amod |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 moved | nsubj |
| 20 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 moved | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 moved | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | nsubj |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 set | compound:prt |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 road | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 road | nmod:poss |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 way | cc |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 road | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Cossack | Cossack's steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Cossack not said here | Cossack | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result | ||||
| 3 | move away | past | the lofty walls | from Cossack; away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | palace | palace's road and way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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