Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 43
He galloped at a full pace, put both spurs into her back and used a scourge of three iron rods, and the army followed him, an unbelievable host.
Who acts: Tsarévna, army · What happens: gallop, put, use, follow · To what, where: spurs, back, scourge, Tsarévna
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 (Tsarévna, army), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 galloped | nsubj |
| 2 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pace | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pace | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pace | amod |
| 6 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 galloped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 galloped | conj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 spurs | det |
| 10 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 used | cc |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 galloped | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scourge | det |
| 17 | scourge | scourge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 used | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rods | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rods | nummod |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rods | compound |
| 21 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scourge | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 followed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 followed | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | nsubj |
| 26 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 galloped | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 followed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 host | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 host | det |
| 30 | unbelievable | unbelievable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 host | amod |
| 31 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | Tsarévna | at a full pace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Tsarévna not said here | both spurs | mare's back | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal | |||
| 3 | use | past | Tsarévna not said here | a scourge of three iron rods | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scourge=Patient | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | the army | Tsarévna | a unbelievable host parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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