Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
The old man was overjoyed, bowed down to earth and took the phial with the living water, ran into the wood to the flowery knoll, and took up the body.
What happens: overjoy, bow down, take, run, take up · To what, where: old man, phial, wood, body
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowed | punct |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 overjoyed | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 bowed | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overjoyed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 phial | det |
| 14 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 water | compound |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 phial | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 knoll | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 knoll | det |
| 26 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 knoll | amod |
| 27 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 took | cc |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 took | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 body | det |
| 33 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | the old man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bow down | participle | to earth | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the phial | with the living water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phial=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | into the wood result; to the flowery knoll | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | |||||
| 5 | take up | past | the body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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