Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 64
So they took the heads with them, put them on the forty-one stakes, armed themselves and galloped off.
Who acts: servants · What happens: take, put, gallop off · To what, where: heads, servants, forty stakes
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 (servants), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heads | det |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stakes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stakes | det |
| 13 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stakes | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 forty | conj |
| 16 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 armed | punct |
| 18 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stakes | amod |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 armed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 galloped | cc |
| 21 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 galloped | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | servants = servant | the heads | with brothers = brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | servants = servant not said here | servants = servant | the forty stakes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stake=Destination | |||
| 3 | gallop off | past | servants = servant not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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