Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 132

The smith swore and made oath that he would never raise the hammer on the devil and would give him every honour.

Who acts: smith, husband · What happens: swear, make, not raise, give · To what, where: oath, hammer, honour, husband

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 (smith, husband), 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 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swore	nsubj
3	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swore	conj
6	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 raise	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 raise	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 raise	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 raise	advmod
11	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hammer	det
13	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raise	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 devil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 devil	det
16	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 raise	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 raise	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 honour	det
22	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swear	past	the smith				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	the smith not said here	oath			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oath=Product
3	not raise	would	husband	the hammer		on the devil	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme on devil=Destination
4	give	would	husband not said here	every honour	husband		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient honour=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 132