Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 40
In my realm there stands in a certain village a great iron column: bring it to the great kitchen and split it up into little logs as firewood for the cook.”
What happens: stand, bring, split up · To what, where: realm, column, great kitchen, little logs
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 realm | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 realm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | obl |
| 4 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 5 stands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 village | amod |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 column | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 column | amod |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 column | compound |
| 13 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 village | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stands | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 kitchen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kitchen | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kitchen | amod |
| 20 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 split | cc |
| 22 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bring | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 split | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 split | compound:prt |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 logs | case |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 logs | amod |
| 27 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 split | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 firewood | case |
| 29 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 split | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 cook | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cook | det |
| 32 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 firewood | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | my realm | in a certain village a great iron column; there = they nmod:poss | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in realm=Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | column | the great kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to kitchen=Destination | ||||
| 3 | split up | infinitive | column | little logs | as firewood for the cook | tree rules |
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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