Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 71
Now the girls had no strength left to run, so they threw the cloth behind them, and a broad sea stretched out, deep, wide and fiery.
Who acts: girls, roots · What happens: have, leave, run, throw, stretch out · To what, where: strength, cloth, broad sea
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 (girls, roots), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 strength | det |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 strength | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 run | mark |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 threw | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cloth | det |
| 15 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stretched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stretched | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 21 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sea | amod |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 threw | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 stretched | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 deep | punct |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stretched | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wide | punct |
| 28 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deep | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fiery | cc |
| 30 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deep | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the girls | no strength | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | no strength not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | throw | past | roots = root | the cloth | behind comb | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme behind they=Destination | |||
| 5 | stretch out | participle · passive | a broad sea | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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