Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 115
And very many soldiers fell down by that beer.
Who acts: many soldiers · What happens: fall down
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many soldiers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fell | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soldiers | amod |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 fell | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 beer | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 beer | det |
| 9 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | many soldiers | by that beer | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by beer=Location |
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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