Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 90
I am a runaway soldier: if I show my head in the town I shall be seized on the spot.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, show, seize · To what, where: runaway soldier, head, I, spot
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 soldier | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soldier | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 4 | runaway | runaway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldier | amod |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 show | nsubj |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soldier | parataxis |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seized | aux:pass |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 town | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 spot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spot | det |
| 21 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 soldier | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 soldier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a runaway soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show a condition, not said to happen | present | I | my head | in the town | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in town=Topic | |||
| 3 | seize | shall · passive | I | the spot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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