Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 72
“Now, Death,” said the soldier, “give me only three hours’ interval in order that I may go home and say farewell to my wife and my son.”
Who acts: Death · What happens: say, give, go · To what, where: soldier, hours interval, Death, order, farewell, wife · 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 (Death), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 three | advmod |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hours | nummod |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 interval | compound |
| 17 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 16 hours | case |
| 18 | interval | interval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 order | case |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | advcl |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 say | cc |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | conj |
| 28 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 wife | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 son | cc |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 son | nmod:poss |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wife | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Death | the soldier | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | hours interval | Death | order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient interval=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | may | Death | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Death not said here | farewell | my wife and my son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to wife=Recipient |
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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