Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 95
They all gathered round for the hallowed gifts; but the journeymen and servants drove them all away.
Who acts: journeymen · What happens: gather, hallow, drive away · To what, where: feast, gathered round
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 (journeymen), 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 | 4 round | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 round | det |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 round | amod |
| 4 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 gifts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gifts | det |
| 7 | hallowed | hallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gifts | amod |
| 8 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 round | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 drove | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 drove | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 journeymen | det |
| 12 | journeymen | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drove | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 servants | cc |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 journeymen | conj |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 round | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drove | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 drove | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 round | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hallow | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | drive away | past | the journeymen and servants | feast | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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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