Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 78
The corpse had no choice, so he answered, “Cut off the left lappet from my shroud and take it with you.
Who acts: corpse · What happens: have, answer, cut off, take · To what, where: choice, left lappet · 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 (corpse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 corpse | det |
| 2 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 choice | det |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cut | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cut | punct |
| 12 | Cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 lappet | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lappet | det |
| 15 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lappet | amod |
| 16 | lappet | lappet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Cut | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 shroud | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shroud | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lappet | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Cut | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the corpse | no choice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | corpse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut off in a quote | participle | the left lappet from my shroud | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector lappet=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | choice | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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