Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 31
We will forbid everybody—all of them—and drive them all a hundred _versts_ away.”
Who acts: We · What happens: forbid, drive · To what, where: everybody, devils
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forbid | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbid | aux |
| 3 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 forbid | obj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 forbid | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 drive | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drive | cc |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbid | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drive | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 hundred | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 versts | nummod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 versts | punct |
| 17 | versts | verst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drive | obj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 drive | punct |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drive | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | future | We | everybody | all of devils obl | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer everybody=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive | infinitive | We not said here | devils = devil | hundred versts obj; away property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme verst=Destination |
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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