Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 146
Every night an assemblage of devils meets there, make a row, dance, play cards, and perpetrate every sort of vileness!”
Who acts: assemblage, you · What happens: meet, make, dance, play, perpetrate, sort · To what, where: row, cards, sort, vileness
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 (assemblage, you), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meets | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 assemblage | det |
| 4 | assemblage | assemblage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meets | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 devils | case |
| 6 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 assemblage | nmod |
| 7 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | advcl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 meets | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 row | det |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dance | punct |
| 14 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | conj |
| 17 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 play | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 perpetrate | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 perpetrate | cc |
| 20 | perpetrate | perpetrate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sort | det |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perpetrate | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 vileness | case |
| 24 | vileness | vileness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sort | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 perpetrate | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 perpetrate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | a assemblage of devils | there | night | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | imperative | you not said here | a row | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset row=Product | ||||
| 3 | dance | infinitive | you not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | you not said here | cards | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | ||||
| 5 | perpetrate | infinitive | every sort of vileness | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sort | vileness | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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