Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 30
And Ilyá took the sword, but had not the strength to lift it up.
Who acts: Ilyá · What happens: take, have, lift up · To what, where: sword, strength
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 (Ilyá), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Ilyá | Ilyá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 strength | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strength | det |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lift | mark |
| 13 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lift | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 lift | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ilyá | the sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Ilyá not said here | the strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lift up | to-infinitive | Ilyá not said here | sword | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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