Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 57
But Katomá had a firm seat, and with one hand he held the mane, and with the other he fetched an iron sheet out of his pocket and struck the palfrey between the ears.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: have, hold, fetch, strike · To what, where: firm seat, mane, iron sheet, pocket, palfrey
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 (Katomá), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 seat | det |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seat | amod |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hand | nummod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mane | det |
| 15 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fetched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fetched | cc |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fetched | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fetched | nsubj |
| 22 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sheet | det |
| 24 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sheet | compound |
| 25 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fetched | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 pocket | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 pocket | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 29 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fetched | obl | ||
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 struck | cc |
| 31 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fetched | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palfrey | det |
| 33 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 struck | obj |
| 34 | between | between | ADP | _ | 36 ears | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ears | det |
| 36 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 struck | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Katomá | a firm seat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Katomá | the mane | with one hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Theme | |||
| 3 | fetch | past | Katomá | a iron sheet | Katomá's pocket | with the other | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Theme | ||
| 4 | strike | past | Katomá not said here | the palfrey | between the ears | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent palfrey=Instrument |
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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