Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 111
“A guilty soul to be tortured.”
What happens: torture · To what, where: guilty soul
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: 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 | _ | 7 tortured | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soul | det |
| 3 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soul | amod |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tortured | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tortured | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tortured | aux:pass |
| 7 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tortured | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tortured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | a guilty soul | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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