Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 142
Next day the old man went to stay as a guest with his second son-in-law, the Moon, and he arrived.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: go, stay, arrive
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 (old man, man), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stay | mark |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 guest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 guest | det |
| 11 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 son | amod |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guest | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 law | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Moon | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Moon | det |
| 22 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 law | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 arrived | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 arrived | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 arrived | nsubj |
| 26 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | as a guest with man's second son in law | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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