Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 29
The smith forged the chain; Zamorýshek put it round him, stretched it, and it broke.
Who acts: smith, Zamorýshek, chain · What happens: forge, put, stretch, break · To what, where: chain
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 (smith, Zamorýshek, chain), 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 | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forged | nsubj |
| 3 | forged | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chain | det |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forged | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 7 | Zamorýshek | Zamorýshek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forged | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stretched | punct |
| 13 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forged | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stretched | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 broke | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 broke | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 broke | nsubj |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stretched | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | past | the smith | the chain | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Product | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Zamorýshek | chain | round smith | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | stretch | past | chain | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | break | past | chain | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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