Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 107

And he thought: “Shall I go straight into the burning pitch, for then the devils will throw me into the seething sulphur until such time as my sins shall have been melted from off me.”

Who acts: soldier, devils · What happens: think, go, burn, throw, melt · To what, where: burning pitch, soldier, seething sulphur, sins · 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 (soldier, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 thought	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 pitch	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 pitch	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pitch	det
12	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 pitch	amod
13	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throw	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 then	case
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 throw	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 devils	det
18	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 throw	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 throw	aux
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 sulphur	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sulphur	det
24	seething	seething	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sulphur	compound
25	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
26	until	until	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 melted	mark
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sins	nmod:poss
31	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 melted	nsubj:pass
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 melted	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 melted	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 melted	aux:pass
35	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 throw	advcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 me	case
37	off	off	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 melted	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	soldier					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go in a quote	shall	soldier		the burning pitch			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pitch=Initial_Location
3	burn in a quote	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	throw in a quote	future	the devils	soldier		time	into the seething sulphur result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into sulphur=Result
5	melt in a quote	shall · perfect · passive		my sins			from soldier	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 107