Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 123
They sat down at the tables: there were all sorts of dishes and of foreign drinks.
Who acts: companions, sorts · What happens: sit down, be, sort · To what, where: tables, dishes
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 (companions, sorts), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 tables | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tables | det |
| 6 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 sorts | det |
| 11 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dishes | case |
| 13 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sorts | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drinks | cc |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 drinks | case |
| 16 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drinks | amod |
| 17 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dishes | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | companions = companion | the tables | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | all sorts of dishes and foreign drinks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sort | dishes and foreign drinks | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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