Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 17
She cut off her red hair, went and disguised herself as a wandering musician, took her _gusli_, and never told anybody, and so set out on her road and way.
Who acts: land · What happens: cut off, go, disguise, wonder, take, not tell · To what, where: red hair, land, anybody, road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 hair | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hair | amod |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 disguised | cc |
| 10 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 disguised | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 musician | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 musician | det |
| 14 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 musician | amod |
| 15 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 disguised | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 gusli | punct |
| 20 | gusli | gusli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 told | advmod |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 26 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 told | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 set | advmod |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 told | ccomp |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 set | compound:prt |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 road | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 road | nmod:poss |
| 34 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 way | cc |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 road | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | land | land's red hair | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hair=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | disguise | past | land | as a wandering musician | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | take | past | land | gusli obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme gusli=Destination | ||||
| 6 | not tell speech: assert | past | land not said here | anybody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent anybody=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | set out | infinitive | land's road and way | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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