Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 9

At night he must sit in chains, and in the morning the Accursèd King used to put a horse-collar on him and make him drive the plough until the evening.

Who acts: King, Accursèd King · What happens: sit, use, put, make, drive · To what, where: chains, horse collar, King, plough

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 (King, Accursèd King), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 chains	case
7	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 used	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 used	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
14	Accursèd	Accursèd	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 King	compound
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 put	mark
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 collar	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 collar	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 horse	punct
22	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 make	cc
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 put	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 plough	det
30	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drive	obj
31	until	until	ADP	_	33 evening	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 evening	det
33	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drive	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	must	King		chains	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chain=Location
2	use	past	the Accursèd King			morning		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	put	to-infinitive	the Accursèd King not said here	a horse collar			on King	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent collar=Theme on he=Destination
4	make	infinitive	the Accursèd King not said here	King				tree rules
5	drive	infinitive	King not said here	the plough		evening		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme plough=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 9