Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 142
He did this and said to the soldier, “Now we will leave the house.”
Who acts: wizard, we · What happens: do, say, leave · To what, where: this, soldier, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wizard, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 soldier | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 leave | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 leave | aux |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | wizard | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wizard not said here | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to soldier=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | future | we | the house | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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