Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 18
His fame spread over the whole kingdom, came to the ears of all.
Who acts: fame · What happens: spread, come · To what, where: whole kingdom, ears
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 (fame), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fame | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kingdom | amod |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ears | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ears | det |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ears | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | soldier's fame | the whole kingdom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over kingdom=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | soldier's fame not said here | the ears of all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location |
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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