Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 124
So the two knights decided they would live together and aid each other.
Who acts: two knights, legs · What happens: decide, live together, aid · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two knights, legs), 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 | _ | 5 decided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 knights | nummod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 decided | nsubj |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 live | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | aux |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decided | xcomp |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 live | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 aid | cc |
| 11 | aid | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | conj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 aid | obj |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the two knights | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live together not said to happen | would | legs = leg | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | aid | present | legs = leg not said here | each | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |
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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