Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 135
And the youth thereafter never more spat on the devil and beat him with a hammer.
What happens: beat · To what, where: youth, more spat
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spat | nsubj |
| 4 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 7 spat | advmod |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 spat | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 spat | amod |
| 7 | spat | spat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 devil | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 devil | det |
| 10 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spat | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beat | cc |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spat | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beat | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hammer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hammer | det |
| 16 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beat | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | infinitive | youth | with a hammer | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hammer=Instrument |
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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