Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 67
Katomá, seated by the tail, hailed the grooms and said, “Ho, you there! grooms and coachmen, take this carrion into the stable.”
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: seat, hail, say, take · To what, where: Katomá, grooms, Ho, carrion, stable · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hailed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Katomá | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 tail | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tail | det |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Katomá | punct |
| 8 | hailed | hail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grooms | det |
| 10 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hailed | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hailed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ho | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ho | punct |
| 15 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 there | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hailed | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 grooms | punct |
| 20 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 there | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 coachmen | cc |
| 22 | coachmen | coachman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grooms | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 hailed | parataxis |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 carrion | det |
| 26 | carrion | carrion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 stable | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stable | det |
| 29 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | Katomá not said here | by the tail | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | hail | past | Katomá | the grooms | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent groom=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Katomá not said here | Ho | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | this carrion | the stable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent carrion=Theme into stable=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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