Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 116

Then they advanced to the second river, which ran with wonderful mead, and more than half of the brave host bent down to drink the mead and rolled on their sides.

Who acts: soldiers, second river · What happens: advance, run, bend down, drink, roll · To what, where: second river, half, mead, sides

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 (soldiers, second river), 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 advanced	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 advanced	nsubj
3	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 advanced	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 river	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mead	case
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mead	amod
13	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bent	cc
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	18 half	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 more	fixed
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 bent	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 host	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 host	det
21	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 host	amod
22	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bent	obl
23	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 advanced	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 bent	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	26 drink	mark
26	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bent	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mead	det
28	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drink	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rolled	cc
30	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 bent	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 sides	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sides	nmod:poss
33	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 rolled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 advanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advance	past	soldiers = soldier		the second river	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	run	past	the second river				with wonderful mead	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with mead=Material
3	bend down	participle · passive		half			of the brave host	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
4	drink	to-infinitive		the mead				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient
5	roll	participle			soldiers's sides			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 116