Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
The son looked at the father, shed hot tears, and took him into his own _izbá_.
Who acts: son · What happens: look, shed, take · To what, where: hot tears, son, own _ izbá
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 (son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shed | punct |
| 8 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tears | amod |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 izbá | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 izbá | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 izbá | amod |
| 18 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 izbá | compound |
| 19 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the son | at the father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at father=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shed | past | the son not said here | hot tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 3 | take | past | son | father's own _ izbá | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into izbá=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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