Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 130
He set to work, cleaned out the courtyard, groomed the horses, carried the water, hewed the wood.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: set, work, clean out, groom, carry, hew · To what, where: courtyard, horses, water, wood
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 (peasant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 set | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleaned | punct |
| 6 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 work | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 cleaned | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 courtyard | det |
| 9 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cleaned | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 groomed | punct |
| 11 | groomed | groom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horses | det |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 groomed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hewed | punct |
| 19 | hewed | hew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hewed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | peasant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clean out | participle | peasant not said here | the courtyard | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | groom | past | peasant not said here | the horses | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hew | past | the wood | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
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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