Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 174
The devils got angry at losing all their money, and began to assault the soldier, roaring out: “Smash him up, brothers!
Who acts: devils · What happens: get, lose, begin, assault, roar out, smash up · To what, where: money, soldier, urchin
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 (devils), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 devils | det |
| 2 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 losing | case |
| 6 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 money | det:predet |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 money | nmod:poss |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 losing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 assault | mark |
| 14 | assault | assault | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soldier | det |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assault | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 roaring | punct |
| 18 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 roaring | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Smash | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Smash | punct |
| 22 | Smash | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 roaring | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Smash | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 Smash | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brothers | punct |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Smash | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the devils | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | the devils not said here | devils's money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | assault | to-infinitive | the soldier | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient | |||||
| 5 | roar out | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | smash up in a quote | infinitive | urchin | brothers obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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