Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 128
So the brothers considered this inscription, and decided to go in different directions; the elder went to the right and the younger to the left.
Who acts: brothers, elder · What happens: consider, decide, go · To what, where: inscription, different directions, right
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, elder), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 considered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 considered | nsubj |
| 4 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 inscription | det |
| 6 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 considered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 decided | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 decided | cc |
| 9 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 considered | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 decided | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 directions | case |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 directions | amod |
| 14 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 elder | det |
| 17 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 considered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 right | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 right | det |
| 21 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 younger | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 younger | det |
| 24 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 left | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 left | det |
| 27 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 younger | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the brothers | this inscription | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent inscription=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | the brothers not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | different directions | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the elder | the right | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to right=Initial_Location |
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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