Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 32
So the peasant took the oxen, went with Sorrow into the carriage, and drove into the field.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: take, go, drive · To what, where: oxen, carriage, field
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oxen | det |
| 6 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Sorrow | case |
| 10 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 carriage | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carriage | det |
| 13 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drove | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drove | cc |
| 16 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 field | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 field | det |
| 19 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drove | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the peasant | the oxen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the peasant not said here | the carriage | with Sorrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into carriage=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | drive | past | the peasant not said here | the field | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into field=Trajectory |
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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