Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 14

So he ordered him to be taken away from sentry-go, and to be given thirty blows with the cat, so that he should not dare to claim kinship.

Who acts: general, sentry · What happens: order, take away, go, give, not dare, not claim · To what, where: brother, thirty blows, kinship

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (general, sentry), 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 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 taken	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taken	aux:pass
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ordered	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 taken	advmod
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
10	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sentry	punct
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 away	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 given	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 given	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	17 given	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 given	aux:pass
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 taken	conj
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 blows	nummod
19	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 given	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 cat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dare	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 dare	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dare	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 dare	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 dare	advmod
29	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 given	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 claim	mark
31	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 dare	xcomp
32	kinship	kinship	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 claim	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	general		brother		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	general not said here			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»
3	go	infinitive	sentry				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	to-infinitive · passive	general not said here	thirty blows		with the cat	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: blow=Theme
5	not dare	should	general				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not claim speech: other	to-infinitive	general not said here	kinship			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kinship=Topic

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 19, sentence 14

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 14