Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 105
“It is the devils who shall slay you—I shall not slay you!”
Who acts: soul, devils, wind · What happens: be, slay, not slay · To what, where: devils, you
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 (soul, devils, wind), 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 | _ | 8 slay | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 devils | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 devils | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devils | det |
| 5 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slay | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 slay | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 slay | aux |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 slay | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 slay | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 slay | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 slay | advmod |
| 14 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slay | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 slay | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 slay | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | soul | the devils | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay in a quote | shall | the devils | you | who nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 3 | not slay in a quote | shall | wind | you | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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