Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 150
“God bless you; but there have been some dare-devils like you who passed a night in this palace, and not one emerged alive!”
Who acts: God, dare devils, one · What happens: bless, be, pass, emerge · To what, where: you, palace
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 (God, dare devils, one), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bless | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bless | nsubj |
| 3 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bless | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 bless | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 been | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 been | expl |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 been | aux |
| 9 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bless | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 devils | det |
| 11 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devils | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 dare | punct |
| 13 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 been | nsubj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 devils | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 devils | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 emerged | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 emerged | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 one | advmod |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 emerged | nsubj |
| 27 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bless | parataxis |
| 28 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 emerged | xcomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 bless | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | infinitive | God | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present · perfect | some dare devils like you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | past | some dare devils like you | this palace | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 4 | emerge in a quote | participle | one | alive property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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