Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 54
But ye have slain him in his sleep, and how shall ye receive praise?
Who acts: ye, Iván · What happens: slay, receive, sleep · To what, where: ye, sleep, praise
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Iván), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 slain | cc |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slain | aux |
| 4 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slain | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sleep | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slain | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 receive | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 receive | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 receive | advmod |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 receive | aux |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 receive | nsubj |
| 14 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slain | conj |
| 15 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 receive | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | present · perfect · passive | ye | Iván's sleep | Iván obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | shall | ye | praise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent praise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | Iván | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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