Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 25
Then Katomá mounted the blind man’s back and he took Bába Yagá by her hair.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: mount, take · To what, where: back, Bába
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 12 | Bába | Bába | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | Yagá | Yagá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Bába | flat |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Katomá | the blind man's back | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | Katomá | Bába | by Bába's hair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bába=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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