Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 21
So the soldier came to him unwashed, unshaved, uncombed, with his nose unwiped and his dress unchanged.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: come, unshav, uncomb · To what, where: unwashed, exchequer
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 (soldier), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | unwashed | unwashed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 unshaved | punct |
| 9 | unshaved | unshav | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 unwashed | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 uncombed | punct |
| 11 | uncombed | uncomb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 unshaved | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nose | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 nose | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uncombed | obl |
| 16 | unwiped | unwiped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nose | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 unchanged | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dress | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unchanged | nsubj |
| 20 | unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 unwiped | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the soldier | unwashed | exchequer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | unshav | participle | unwashed not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | uncomb | participle | with soldier's nose | tree rules |
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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