Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
At the fourth river powerful _vódka_ flowed.
What happens: flow · To what, where: fourth river
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 river | amod |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 river | amod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 vódka | punct |
| 7 | vódka | vódka | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 river | conj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 flowed | punct |
| 9 | flowed | flow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vódka | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 river | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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