Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 74

So they sent a man to look after him and the soldier killed him also, and in a short time he had chopped off the heads of all the robbers.

Who acts: robbers, soldier, man · What happens: send, look, kill, chop off · To what, where: man, heads

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 (robbers, soldier, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 look	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 killed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soldier	det
12	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killed	nsubj
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	obj
15	also	also	ADV	_	13 killed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chopped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 chopped	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 chopped	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 chopped	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 chopped	aux
24	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sent	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	27 heads	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heads	det
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 chopped	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 robbers	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 robbers	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 robbers	det
31	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heads	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	send	past	robbers = robber	a man		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here		after man	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	kill	past	the soldier	man		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	chop off	past · perfect	man	the heads of all robbers	time	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 74