Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 22
They journeyed for one year, the second year, and the third year, and they traversed many lands.
Who acts: joy · What happens: journey, traverse · To what, where: many lands
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 (joy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 year | nummod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 year | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 year | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 year | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 year | amod |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journeyed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 traversed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 traversed | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 traversed | nsubj |
| 18 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeyed | conj |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lands | amod |
| 20 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 traversed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | joy | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | traverse | past | joy | many lands | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme |
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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