Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 128
Why, the soldier was a State servant, and a soldier cannot be drowned in the sea, nor be burned in the fire!
Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, not drown, burn · To what, where: State servant, soldier, sea, fire
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 servant | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 servant | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 7 | State | state | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servant | amod |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drowned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drowned | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 drowned | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 drowned | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drowned | aux:pass |
| 16 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 servant | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drowned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 burned | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 burned | cc |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 burned | aux:pass |
| 23 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 servant | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burned | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the soldier | a State servant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not drown | can · passive | a soldier | the sea | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burn | infinitive · passive | the fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: in fire=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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