Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 41
Then the soldier said to the Tsar, “God guards him who guards himself; let one of us rest and the other stand guard.”
Who acts: soldier, God · What happens: say, guard, let · To what, where: Tsar, one rest · 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 (soldier, God), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Tsar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tsar | det |
| 7 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 guards | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 guards | punct |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 guards | nsubj |
| 11 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 guards | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 guards | nsubj |
| 14 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 guards | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 guards | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rest | nummod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 guard | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 guard | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 guard | amod |
| 25 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guard | compound |
| 26 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rest | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | the Tsar | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to tsar=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | guard in a quote | present | God | TSAR | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | guard in a quote | present | TSAR | who nsubj | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | one rest and the other stand guard | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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