Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 107
So he went to his stretch of land and saw such splendid blades of corn, at which any soul might rejoice.
Who acts: man, soul · What happens: go, see, rejoice · To what, where: stretch, such splendid blades
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, soul), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stretch | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stretch | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretch | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blades | amod |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blades | amod |
| 13 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 corn | case |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blades | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rejoice | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 rejoice | obl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 soul | det |
| 20 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rejoice | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 rejoice | aux |
| 22 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blades | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | man's stretch of land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stretch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man not said here | such splendid blades of corn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blade=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rejoice | might | any soul | such splendid blades of corn | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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