Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 126
The Apostles saw him, and said to the Lord: “Some soldier or other has come up here with two hundred and fifty souls from hell!”
Who acts: Apostles, soldier · What happens: see, say, come up · To what, where: soldier, Lord · 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 (Apostles, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Apostles | det |
| 2 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Lord | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lord | det |
| 10 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 soldier | det |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 other | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soldier | conj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 come | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 souls | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hundred | compound |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 souls | nummod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fifty | cc |
| 25 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hundred | conj |
| 26 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 hell | case |
| 28 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 souls | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Apostles | soldier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Apostles not said here | the Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lord=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come up in a quote | present · perfect | some soldier | here | with hundred souls from hell | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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