Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 36
The poor man lifted the sack on to his shoulders and went home and recounted how things had gone.
Who acts: poor man, things · What happens: lift on, go, recount · To what, where: sack, shoulders
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 (poor man, things), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 lifted | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lifted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 recounted | cc |
| 15 | recounted | recount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 gone | advmod |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 recounted | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift on | past | the poor man | the sack | man's shoulders | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme to shoulder=Destination | |||
| 2 | go | past | the poor man not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recount speech: other | past | the poor man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | things | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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