Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 127
“Take them into Paradise, but do not let the soldier in.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, not let in · To what, where: Apostles, Paradise, soldier
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 Paradise | case |
| 5 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 let | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Apostles = apostle | Paradise | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into paradise=Destination | |||
| 2 | not let in in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the soldier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=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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