Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 117
The poor foundling set out on his road; when on his way, he met a poor man with nothing on but a shirt; but this beggar was Christ Himself.
Who acts: poor foundling, beggar · What happens: set out, meet, be · To what, where: poor foundling, road, poor man, way, Christ
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 foundling, beggar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foundling | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foundling | amod |
| 3 | foundling | foundling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 foundling | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 road | nmod:poss |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 met | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 nothing | case |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 man | nmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 shirt | case |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 shirt | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shirt | det |
| 25 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nothing | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Christ | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 Christ | cc |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 beggar | det |
| 29 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Christ | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 Christ | cop |
| 31 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 32 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 Christ | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the poor foundling not said here | foundling's road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the poor foundling | a poor man | foundling's way | with nothing on a shirt; foundling nsubj | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with nothing=Instrument | ||
| 3 | is a | past | this beggar | Christ | beggar nmod | tree rules |
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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