Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 30
And the guns fired and the shots flew, and the smoke wreathed and writhed: it was all visible to the eye.
Who acts: guns, smoke · What happens: fire, fly, wreath, writhe, be · To what, where: guns
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: who acts (guns, smoke), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guns | det |
| 3 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 guns | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shots | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shots | det |
| 7 | shots | shot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guns | conj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wreathed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wreathed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smoke | det |
| 12 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wreathed | nsubj |
| 13 | wreathed | wreath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 writhed | cc |
| 15 | writhed | writhe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wreathed | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 visible | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 visible | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 visible | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 visible | advmod |
| 20 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 writhed | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 eye | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eye | det |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visible | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | participle | the guns and the shots not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | the guns and the shots | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wreath | past | the smoke | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | writhe | past | the smoke not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | smoke | to the eye; all, visible property | tree rules |
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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