Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 12
So the master dressed him in his own dress, and they journeyed together to the town for the case to be tried.
Who acts: master, dolt · What happens: dress, journey, try · To what, where: lord, own dress, town
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 (master, dolt), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dressed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dress | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dress | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dress | amod |
| 9 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 journeyed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 journeyed | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 journeyed | nsubj |
| 13 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dressed | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 journeyed | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journeyed | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 case | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 case | det |
| 20 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journeyed | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tried | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tried | aux:pass |
| 23 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 journeyed | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | the master | lord | master's own dress | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | journey | past | dolt | the town | for the case; together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive · passive | dolt not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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