Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 133
So the blind man took a barrow, put the legless knight into it, and ran him into the town, up to the merchant’s house.
Who acts: blind man · What happens: take, put, run · To what, where: barrow, legless knight, knight, town
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 (blind man), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 barrow | det |
| 7 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 11 | legless | legless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knight | amod |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 house | punct |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 28 house | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 merchant | det |
| 26 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 merchant | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the blind man | a barrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the blind man not said here | the legless knight | barrow | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent knight=Goal | |||
| 3 | run | past | the blind man not said here | knight | the town | to the merchant's house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into town=Initial_Location to house=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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