Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 115
So he stripped the lord to his skin, clutched his legs up with nippers, threw him into the forge, began to blow up the bellows, and burned him to ashes.
Who acts: man · What happens: strip, clutch up, throw, begin, blow up, burn · To what, where: lord, legs, man, forge, bellows
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 stripped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stripped | nsubj |
| 3 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lord | det |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stripped | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stripped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clutched | punct |
| 10 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stripped | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clutched | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 clutched | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 nippers | case |
| 15 | nippers | nipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clutched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stripped | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 forge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forge | det |
| 21 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 threw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 blow | mark |
| 25 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 blow | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bellows | det |
| 28 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 blow | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 burned | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 burned | cc |
| 31 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stripped | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 burned | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 ashes | case |
| 34 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 burned | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | past | man | the lord | to man's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient | |||
| 2 | clutch up | past | man not said here | man's legs | with nippers | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | past | man | into the forge result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into forge=Result | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | blow up | to-infinitive | the bellows | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | |||||
| 6 | burn | past | man not said here | man | to ashes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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