Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 33
At midnight a sudden storm rose and the sea raged, and a strange nag rose out of the sea, ran up to the rick and began to eat it.
Who acts: sudden storm rose, strange nag · What happens: rage, rise, run up, begin, eat · To what, where: sea, nag
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 (sudden storm rose, strange nag), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raged | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rose | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | amod |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | compound |
| 6 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raged | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sea | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | conj |
| 10 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nag | det |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nag | amod |
| 15 | nag | nag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raged | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raged | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 ran | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 rick | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rick | det |
| 26 | rick | rick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 began | cc |
| 28 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raged | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 eat | mark |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 began | xcomp |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 eat | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 raged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past | a sudden storm rose and the sea | midnight | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | a strange nag | the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | run up | past | a sudden storm rose and the sea not said here | to the rick result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rick=Result | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | a sudden storm rose and the sea not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | a sudden storm rose and the sea not said here | nag | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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