Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 89
One day Christ and St. Peter were walking about the earth and came to a village.
Who acts: Christ · What happens: walk, come · To what, where: village
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 (Christ), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Peter | cc |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Peter | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Christ | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walking | aux |
| 8 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walking | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walking | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Christ and Peter St. | day | about the earth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about earth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | Christ and Peter St. not said here | a village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=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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