Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 92
Have some fear for God!” the peasant shrieked: and he told what he had seen at night.
Who acts: you, peasant, God · What happens: have, shriek, tell, see · To what, where: fear · 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 (you, peasant, God), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 fear | det |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 shrieked | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shrieked | nsubj |
| 10 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | acl:relcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 seen | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 told | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | some fear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shriek in a quote | past | the peasant | some fear not said here | for God | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fear=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | God | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past · perfect | God | night | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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