Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 35
The unholy spirit wrote him out this undertaking in his own blood, gave it him, and took to his heels.
Who acts: unholy spirit, this · What happens: write out, undertake, give, take · To what, where: soldier, own blood, spirit
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 (unholy spirit, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrote | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 wrote | compound:prt |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 undertaking | nsubj |
| 8 | undertaking | undertake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wrote | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 blood | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blood | amod |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 undertaking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrote | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 heels | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heels | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write out | past | the unholy spirit | soldier | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | undertake | gerund | this | soldier's own blood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | past | spirit | soldier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | to soldier's heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=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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