Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 61
They assembled all the people in countless hosts, and for three whole days they gave food and drink to all without requital, without any charge.
Who acts: drums · What happens: assemble, give · To what, where: people, countless hosts, food, all
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 (drums), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assembled | nsubj |
| 2 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 assembled | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hosts | case |
| 7 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hosts | amod |
| 8 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 assembled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assembled | parataxis |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drink | cc |
| 19 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 gave | obl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 requital | case |
| 23 | requital | requital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 charge | punct |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 charge | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 charge | det |
| 27 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | drums = drum | all people | countless hosts | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | drums = drum | food and drink | all | day | without requital; any charge conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to all=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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