Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 151
“Well, still, a Russian soldier cannot drown in water, or burn in fire.
Who acts: Russian soldier · What happens: not drown, burn · To what, where: water, fire
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 (Russian soldier), 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 | _ | 11 drown | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 drown | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 drown | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 still | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soldier | amod |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drown | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 drown | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 drown | advmod |
| 11 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drown | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 burn | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 burn | cc |
| 16 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 drown | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drown in a quote | can | a Russian soldier | water | still | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | burn in a quote | infinitive | fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fire=Location |
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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