Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 58
The soldier jumped up, took the cutlass and went to recall him and to have a talk: “Why do you keep guard in this way?
Who acts: soldier, you · What happens: jump up, take, go, recall, have, keep · To what, where: cutlass, TSAR, talk, guard, way
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, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cutlass | det |
| 8 | cutlass | cutlass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 recall | mark |
| 12 | recall | recall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 recall | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 recall | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 talk | det |
| 18 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 21 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 keep | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 jumped | advcl |
| 25 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the soldier | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the soldier not said here | the cutlass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutlass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the soldier not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | recall | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | TSAR | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | a talk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient | ||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | present · do-support | you | guard | this way | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Theme in way=Location |
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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