Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 135
But the shepherd was taking his flock, and at dawn he sounded his trumpet and went into the wood to look for a little lamb.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: take, sound, go, look · To what, where: flock, trumpet, wood
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 taking | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | aux |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 flock | nmod:poss |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sounded | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounded | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sounded | nsubj |
| 13 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 trumpet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounded | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sounded | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 lamb | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lamb | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lamb | amod |
| 26 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · progressive | the shepherd | shepherd's flock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | shepherd | shepherd's trumpet | dawn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trumpet=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | shepherd not said here | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | shepherd not said here | for a little lamb | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for lamb=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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