Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 58
He would go and look at the glass, and instantly he knew who had to die and who should recover.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: go, look, know, have, die, recover · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knew | cc |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 knew | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | advcl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 die | mark |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 recover | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 recover | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 recover | aux |
| 21 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 die | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | soldier | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | soldier not said here | at the glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | soldier | instantly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 6 | recover | should | who nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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