Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 19
“Your young wife forced me in there; she threatened my life.”
Who acts: young wife, wife · What happens: force, threaten · To what, where: horse, life
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 (young wife, wife), 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 | _ | 5 forced | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forced | nsubj |
| 5 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 forced | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 there | case |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 forced | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 threatened | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threatened | nsubj |
| 11 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forced | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threatened | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forced | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force in a quote | past | Your young wife | the horse = horse | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | threaten in a quote | past | wife | my life | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus life=Experiencer |
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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