Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 119
So the old man set to collecting the grain, and the Sun warmed it, and the Moon shone on it, and Vóron Vóronovich helped to collect the grain.
Who acts: Sun, Moon, Vóron · What happens: collect, warm, shine, help · To what, where: grain
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, Moon, Vóron), 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 | _ | 14 warmed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 set | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | compound |
| 5 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warmed | conj |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 collecting | mark |
| 7 | collecting | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 set | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grain | det |
| 9 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 collecting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 warmed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 warmed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 warmed | nsubj |
| 14 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 warmed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shone | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shone | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Moon | det |
| 19 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shone | nsubj |
| 20 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 warmed | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shone | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 helped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 helped | cc |
| 25 | Vóron | Vóron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 helped | nsubj |
| 26 | Vóronovich | Vóronovich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Vóron | flat |
| 27 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 warmed | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 collect | mark |
| 29 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 helped | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 grain | det |
| 31 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 collect | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | gerund | the Sun not said here | the grain | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warm | past | the Sun | grain | the old man set conj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | shine | past | the Moon | grain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | help | past | Vóron | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | collect | to-infinitive | Vóron not said here | the grain | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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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