Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 52
Soon he rode to the town, in order to invite his brother and his sister-in-law to his own name-day.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: ride, invite · To what, where: town, brother
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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 invite | punct |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 invite | mark |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 in | fixed |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 invite | mark |
| 11 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rode | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 invite | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sister | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sister | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 day | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 invite | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | peasant | the town | soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to town=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | peasant's brother and peasant's sister in law | day | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |
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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