Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 94
This time the master of the ship believed him, and returned to the island, and he saw the twelve bold pirates go sailing by.
Who acts: master, Vásya, twelve bold pirates · What happens: believe, return, see, go, sail · To what, where: Vásya
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 (master, Vásya, twelve bold pirates), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believed | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 master | nmod |
| 8 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 believed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 believed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 island | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 island | det |
| 15 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 believed | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pirates | det |
| 21 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 pirates | nummod |
| 22 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pirates | amod |
| 23 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 25 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 go | xcomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 sailing | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the master of the ship | Vásya | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | return | past | the master of the ship not said here | to the island result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Vásya | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go | present | the twelve bold pirates | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sail | gerund | the twelve bold pirates not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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