Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 95
So the old man went into the city, went into all the inns by turns and showed his precious stone.
Who acts: old man · What happens: go, show · To what, where: city, inns, precious stone
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 (old man), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 inns | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 inns | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 inns | det |
| 14 | inns | inn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 turns | case |
| 16 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 showed | cc |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 stone | nmod:poss |
| 20 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stone | amod |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | all inns | by turns | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into inn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | show | past | ZAMORÝSHEK's precious stone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stone=Recipient |
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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