Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 79
So he went home, and he ordered all of his servants to take all of the best malt out of his granaries, and throw it into the well.
Who acts: man, all · What happens: go, order, take, throw · To what, where: all, granaries, malt, well
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, all), 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 servants | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 all | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 malt | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 malt | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 malt | amod |
| 19 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 all | nmod |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 granaries | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 granaries | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 granaries | nmod:poss |
| 23 | granaries | granary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 all | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 throw | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 throw | cc |
| 26 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 throw | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 well | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 well | det |
| 30 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 throw | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | man | all of man's servants | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent all=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | all of man's servants not said here | all of the best malt | man's granaries | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent all=Theme out granary=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | throw | infinitive | all of man's servants not said here | malt | into the well result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into well=Result |
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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