Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
So they came back home to the village, lay down, slept, and ate of the fare God provided.
Who acts: ricks, God · What happens: come back, lay down, sleep, eat, provide · To what, where: village, fare
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 (ricks, God), 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 | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 home | advmod |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lay | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fare | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fare | det |
| 19 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ate | obl |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 provided | nsubj |
| 21 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fare | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | ricks = rick | the village | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | ricks = rick not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | ricks = rick not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | past | ricks = rick not said here | of the fare | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of fare=Source | ||||
| 5 | provide | past | God | the fare not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fare=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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