Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 43
Then the soldier gave him his sharp cutlass, put him at the door, bade him not go to sleep, and arouse him if anything should happen.
Who acts: soldier, bade, anything · What happens: give, put, not go, not arouse, happen · To what, where: sharp cutlass, TSAR, door, sleep
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, bade, anything), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cutlass | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cutlass | amod |
| 8 | cutlass | cutlass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 16 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | nsubj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 go | advmod |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 arouse | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arouse | cc |
| 24 | arouse | arouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arouse | obj |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 happen | mark |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 happen | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 happen | aux |
| 29 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 arouse | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the soldier | TSAR's sharp cutlass | TSAR | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cutlass=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the soldier not said here | TSAR | the door | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 3 | not go | infinitive | bade | sleep | TSAR nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | not arouse | infinitive | bade not said here | TSAR | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | anything | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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