Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 103
Do not be a miser, and do not beat St. Nicholas on the shoulders with the keys!” the old man said, and vanished.
Who acts: old man · What happens: do, not be, not beat, say, vanish · To what, where: miser, Nicholas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | parataxis |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 miser | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 miser | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 miser | det |
| 5 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beat | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beat | cc |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 beat | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 beat | advmod |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 beat | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shoulders | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shoulders | det |
| 15 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beat | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 keys | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 keys | det |
| 18 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beat | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vanished | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 vanished | cc |
| 27 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | infinitive | a miser | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not beat | infinitive · do-support | Nicholas St. | with the keys; on the shoulders | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Instrument on shoulder=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | vanish in a quote | past | the old man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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