Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 132
One way the waters tossed, On the other lay woe, On the third side naught but moss, On the fourth side—Oh!
Who acts: waters · What happens: toss · To what, where: One way, other lay woe
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 (waters), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 way | nummod |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tossed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 waters | det |
| 4 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tossed | nsubj |
| 5 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woe | punct |
| 7 | On | on | ADP | _ | 11 woe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woe | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woe | amod |
| 10 | lay | lay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woe | amod |
| 11 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tossed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 naught | punct |
| 13 | On | on | ADP | _ | 17 naught | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 naught | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 naught | amod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 naught | compound |
| 17 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 tossed | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 moss | cc |
| 19 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 naught | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 side | punct |
| 21 | On | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tossed | obl |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Oh | punct |
| 26 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 side | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past | the waters | One way | the other lay woe | on naught moss; on the fourth side | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on woe=Destination |
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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