Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 143
On the road the soldier asked him, “Tell me, why did you fill the bladders with the blood?”
Who acts: soldier, wizard · What happens: ask, tell, fill · To what, where: wizard, road, soldier, bladders · 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 (soldier, wizard), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 10 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fill | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fill | advmod |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fill | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fill | nsubj |
| 16 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Tell | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bladders | det |
| 18 | bladders | bladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fill | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fill | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the soldier | wizard | the road | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the soldier = soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | fill in a quote | past · do-support | wizard | the bladders | with the blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient with blood=Instrument |
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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