Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 129

When you enter the gates of Paradise, say at once: ‘Soldier, jump into the nosebag!’”

Who acts: you, Soldier · What happens: enter, say, jump · To what, where: gates, nosebag · 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 (you, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 enter	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 enter	nsubj
3	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gates	det
5	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enter	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Paradise	case
7	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gates	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 enter	punct
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 say	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 jump	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 jump	punct
14	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jump	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Soldier	punct
16	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 nosebag	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 nosebag	det
19	nosebag	nosebag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jump	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 jump	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 jump	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	present	you	the gates of Paradise		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	jump	infinitive	Soldier		into the nosebag result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into nosebag=Result

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 129

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 129