Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 18
Katomá crept out from the bank and turned round on her, threw himself on her life a mountain of iron.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: creep out, turn round, throw · To what, where: bank, Katomá, life
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. 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 | 2 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 crept | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crept | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 turned | cc |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | conj |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 turned | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crept | parataxis |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 threw | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 iron | case |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mountain | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | Katomá | the bank | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bank=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn round | past | Katomá not said here | on Bába; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Katomá | Bába's life | a mountain of iron obj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination mountain=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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