Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 46
Some of them brought up one sack, some two, and they soon filled the carts and sent them to the Tsar, into his palace.
Who acts: Some, carts · What happens: bring up, fill, send · To what, where: one sack, carts, Tsar, palace
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 (Some, carts), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sack | nummod |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 two | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sack | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 filled | advmod |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 carts | det |
| 17 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 filled | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Tsar | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tsar | det |
| 23 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 palace | punct |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | Some of carts | one sack | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | carts = cart | the carts | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient | |||
| 3 | send | past | carts = cart not said here | carts = cart | the Tsar | Tsar's palace | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to tsar=Destination |
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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