Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 124
So he instantly ordered two hundred and fifty souls to be counted out and to be taken to the rear gates in order that the soldier might not see him.
Who acts: master, soldier · What happens: order, count out, take, not see · To what, where: hundred souls, order, master
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 (master, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 souls | nummod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fifty | cc |
| 8 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | conj |
| 9 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 counted | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 counted | aux:pass |
| 12 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 counted | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taken | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 taken | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 counted | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 gates | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gates | det |
| 20 | rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gates | amod |
| 21 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 order | case |
| 23 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soldier | det |
| 26 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 see | advmod |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taken | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | master | hundred souls | instantly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | |||
| 2 | count out | to-infinitive · passive | master not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive · passive | master not said here | order | to the rear gates result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to gate=Result | |||
| 4 | not see | might | the soldier | master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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