Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 87
This time he had his head in the noose tight, and still he said: “I did nothing of the sort!”
Who acts: pope · What happens: have, say, do · To what, where: head, noose, nothing · 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 (pope), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 noose | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 noose | det |
| 9 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 10 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 did | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sort | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sort | det |
| 23 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | pope | pope's head | the noose | time | tight property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |
| 2 | say speech: express | past | pope | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | pope | nothing of the sort | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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