Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 44
The soldier then thought of the old devil and of the undertaking he had given him, and how it had run in the undertaking: “I shall serve you eternally as a faithful servant.”
Who acts: soldier, undertaking · What happens: think, give, run, serve · To what, where: soldier, understanding, undertaking, you · 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 (soldier, undertaking), 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 | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 devil | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 devil | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 devil | amod |
| 8 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 undertaking | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 undertaking | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 undertaking | det |
| 12 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 devil | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 undertaking | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 run | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 run | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 run | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 undertaking | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 undertaking | det |
| 25 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 serve | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 serve | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 serve | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 serve | aux |
| 30 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 serve | obj |
| 32 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 36 servant | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 servant | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 servant | det |
| 35 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 servant | amod |
| 36 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 serve | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 serve | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the soldier | then | of the old devil and the undertaking | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the undertaking not said here | soldier | understanding | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | past · perfect · passive | undertaking | the undertaking | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in undertaking=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | shall | the soldier = soldier | you | as a faithful servant | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Duration as servant=Attribute |
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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