Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 36
Katomá broke off a dry twig from the tree and threw it into the well.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: break off, throw · To what, where: dry twig, twig, well
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 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 broke | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 twig | det |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 twig | amod |
| 6 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 well | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 well | det |
| 15 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | Katomá | a dry twig | from the tree | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent twig=Patient from tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Katomá not said here | twig | into the well result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into well=Result |
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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