Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 32
God has sent us a bed for the night; let us go there,” said the soldier.
Who acts: us · What happens: send, let, go, say · To what, where: God, us, soldier · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (us), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldier | det |
| 19 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | God | us | night | a bed obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=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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