Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 129
One day Svyatogór was walking on the earth and laid hold of a wallet which an old man whom he met wandering by held.
Who acts: Svyatogór, wallet, hold · What happens: walk, lay, man, meet, wonder, hold · To what, where: earth, hold, old man, wallet
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Svyatogór, wallet, hold), 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 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Svyatogór | Svyatogór | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | conj |
| 11 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wallet | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wallet | det |
| 14 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 man | nsubj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wallet | appos |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 met | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 met | nsubj |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 met | xcomp |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 held | mark |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wandering | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Svyatogór | the earth | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lay | past | Svyatogór not said here | hold of a wallet | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 3 | man | a wallet | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | meet | past | hold | a old man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | hold not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | hold | participle | hold not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hold | a wallet | nom hold «act 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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