Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 86
The servant stabbed his master in the side, and the blood poured forth, and he fell down.
Who acts: servant, blood · What happens: stab, pour, fall down · To what, where: master, side
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 (servant, blood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stabbed | nsubj |
| 3 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stabbed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stabbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 poured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 poured | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blood | det |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 poured | nsubj |
| 13 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stabbed | parataxis |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 poured | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stabbed | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | past | the servant | servant's master | the side | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent master=Patient in side=Location | |||
| 2 | pour | participle | the blood | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | servant | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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