Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 44
It may be long, it may be short, at last they came to the boundary, and the doughty youth stopped, collected his army into the barrel, and went to the capital.
Who acts: army, spurs, doughty youth · What happens: be, come, stop, collect, go · To what, where: boundary, army, barrel, capital
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 (army, spurs, doughty youth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 short | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 short | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 short | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 short | cop |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 last | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 boundary | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boundary | det |
| 17 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stopped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stopped | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youth | det |
| 21 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 youth | amod |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stopped | nsubj |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 collected | punct |
| 25 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stopped | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 army | nmod:poss |
| 27 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 collected | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 barrel | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 barrel | det |
| 30 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 collected | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stopped | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 capital | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 capital | det |
| 36 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | army | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | army | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | army not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | spurs = spur | the boundary | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to boundary=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | the doughty youth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | collect | past | Tsarévna's army | the barrel | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent army=Material into barrel=Product | ||||
| 7 | go | past | the doughty youth not said here | the capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to capital=Initial_Location |
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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