Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 44
They went into the capital, and there he met them with his herd of cows.
Who acts: three, Katomá · What happens: go, meet · To what, where: capital, three
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 (three, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 capital | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 capital | det |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 met | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 met | expl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 herd | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 herd | nmod:poss |
| 14 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cows | case |
| 16 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 herd | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | three | the capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into capital=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | Katomá | three | there | with Katomá's herd of cows | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme with herd=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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