Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 134
So Svyatogór purchases her freedom by taking out five hundred roubles, laying it on the table, and then snatching up his sharp sword out of his sheath smote her on her white breasts and so left her.
Who acts: Svyatogór · What happens: purchase, take out, lay, snatch up, smite, leave · To what, where: freedom, hundred roubles, table, sharp sword, Svyatogór
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), 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 | _ | 3 purchases | advmod |
| 2 | Svyatogór | Svyatogór | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 purchases | nsubj |
| 3 | purchases | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 5 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purchases | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 taking | mark |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 purchases | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 taking | compound:prt |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 roubles | nummod |
| 11 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laying | punct |
| 13 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taking | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laying | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 snatching | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 snatching | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 snatching | advmod |
| 21 | snatching | snatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 taking | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 snatching | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sword | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sword | amod |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snatching | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 smote | mark |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sheath | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 smote | obl |
| 30 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 snatching | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 smote | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 breasts | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 breasts | nmod:poss |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 breasts | amod |
| 35 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 smote | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 left | cc |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 left | advmod |
| 38 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taking | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 left | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 purchases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | present | Svyatogór | Svyatogór's freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take out | gerund | Svyatogór not said here | hundred roubles | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | gerund | Svyatogór not said here | freedom | the table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 4 | snatch up | gerund | Svyatogór not said here | hold's sharp sword | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 5 | smite | past | Svyatogór not said here | Svyatogór | of hold's sheath; on Svyatogór's white breasts | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on breast=Patient | |||
| 6 | leave | past | Svyatogór not said here | Svyatogór | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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