Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 107
Next day the poor old man left his hostess and went forth to roam.
Who acts: poor old man · What happens: leave, go, roam · To what, where: hostess
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hostess | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 roam | mark |
| 14 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the poor old man | man's hostess | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hostess=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the poor old man not said here | forth property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | roam | to-infinitive | the poor old man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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