Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 28
Very soon the devils saw that they could not possibly stand such treatment, and they began to shriek: “Mercy on us!—mercy on us!
Who acts: devils · What happens: see, not stand, begin, shriek · To what, where: Mercy, such treatment · 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 (devils), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 devils | det |
| 4 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 stand | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 stand | advmod |
| 10 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 11 stand | advmod |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treatment | amod |
| 13 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 shriek | mark |
| 19 | shriek | shriek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mercy | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mercy | punct |
| 22 | Mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 us | case |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Mercy | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mercy | punct |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 mercy | punct |
| 27 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Mercy | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 mercy | nmod |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the devils | Mercy on us and mercy on us | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not stand | could | devils = devil | such treatment | possibly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | begin | past | devils = devil | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | shriek | to-infinitive | devils = devil not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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