Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 128

But the soldier had given up his nosebag to one guilty soul, and had told it: “Just look here.

What happens: give up, tell, look · To what, where: soldier, soul · 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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 given	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 given	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nosebag	nmod:poss
8	nosebag	nosebag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 soul	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 soul	nummod
11	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soul	amod
12	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 given	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
20	Just	just	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 look	aux
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	ccomp
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 look	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past · perfect · passive	the soldier			to one guilty soul; soldier's nosebag obj	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect		soul			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look in a quote				here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 128