Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 46
So they tied their knightly horses to each of the stakes, and they entered.
Who acts: brides · What happens: tie, enter · To what, where: knightly horses
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 (brides), 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 tied | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horses | amod |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tied | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 horses | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stakes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stakes | det |
| 11 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 each | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entered | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tied | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | brides = bride | brides's knightly horses | to each of the stakes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to each=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | past | brides = bride | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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