Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 85
“Well, I suppose you ought to know!” said the soldier, and he took him out of the wood into the broad road.
Who acts: soldier, you, TSAR · What happens: suppose, know, say, take · To what, where: brother, wood · 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, you, TSAR), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 suppose | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 suppose | ccomp |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppose | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldier | det |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 26 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 road | amod |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | the soldier = soldier | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | ought | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | past | TSAR | brother | the wood | into the broad road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into road=Destination |
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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