Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 70
And she went on tearing up one tree after another by the roots, and she made herself a way, and again set out after them, and almost caught them up.
Who acts: witch · What happens: go, tear up, make, set out, catch up · To what, where: one tree, witch, roots
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 tearing | mark |
| 5 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 tearing | compound:prt |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 tree | nummod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tearing | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 another | case |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 tree | nmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 roots | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roots | det |
| 13 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tearing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 made | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 caught | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 caught | cc |
| 30 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 31 caught | advmod |
| 31 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 caught | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 caught | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | witch | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tear up | gerund | witch not said here | one tree | after another | by the roots | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||
| 3 | make | past | witch | witch | a way obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Product | |||
| 4 | set out | participle | witch not said here | after roots = root; again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch up | past | witch not said here | roots = root | almost property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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