Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 7

The soldier recognised the general, but it was no good, because the general would not acknowledge him at all: “I do not know you, and you must not claim acquaintance with me!”

Who acts: soldier, lot, general, I, you · What happens: recognise, be, not acknowledge, not know, not claim · To what, where: general, brother, all, you, acquaintance · 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, lot, general, I), 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 recognised	nsubj
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 general	det
5	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 recognised	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 good	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 good	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 good	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 good	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 recognised	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 acknowledge	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 acknowledge	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 general	det
15	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 acknowledge	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 acknowledge	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 acknowledge	advmod
18	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 good	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 acknowledge	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 acknowledge	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 know	advmod
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 recognised	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 know	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 claim	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 claim	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 claim	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 claim	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 claim	advmod
34	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 know	parataxis
35	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 claim	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 claim	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 claim	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	the soldier	the general			tree rules
2	is	past	lot			good property	tree rules
3	not acknowledge	would	the general	brother	all		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	not know in a quote	present · do-support	I	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	not claim speech: other in a quote	must	you	acquaintance		with me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent acquaintance=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 7

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 7