Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

“We’ll see who’ll have the last word if it comes to eating,” said the soldier, shook the nosebag open, and asked, “What is this?”

Who acts: We, word, soldier · What happens: see, have, come, say, shake, ask · To what, where: last word, eating, nosebag, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, word, 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	_	4 see	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 have	nsubj
6	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 comes	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 eating	case
15	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shook	punct
22	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nosebag	det
24	nosebag	nosebag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shook	obj
25	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 nosebag	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 this	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 this	punct
31	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 this	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 this	cop
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 asked	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	We				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have in a quote	future		the last word		who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	word		eating		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to eating=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shake	past	the soldier not said here	the nosebag			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nosebag=Patient
6	ask speech: ask	past	the soldier not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present		this		What nsubj	tree rules

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 1