Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 57
When the evening came Zamorýshek went to look at his horse, and the good horse saw him and spoke with a human voice.
Who acts: evening, Zamorýshek, good horse · What happens: come, go, look, see, speak · To what, where: ZAMORÝSHEK · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (evening, Zamorýshek, good horse), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | advcl |
| 5 | Zamorýshek | Zamorýshek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spoke | cc |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 23 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 voice | amod |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoke | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Zamorýshek | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Zamorýshek not said here | at ZAMORÝSHEK's horse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the good horse | ZAMORÝSHEK = zamorýshek | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | the good horse not said here | with a human voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with voice=Co-Agent |
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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