Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 10
Then Christ led the boy into Paradise, and told him his place was ready for him there, and you may be sure the boy was none too anxious to leave it on that day.
Who acts: Christ, place, you, boy · What happens: lead, tell, be, leave · To what, where: boy, Paradise, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christ, place, you, boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 Paradise | case |
| 7 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 told | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ready | obl |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 ready | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sure | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sure | cop |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 led | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 anxious | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 anxious | cop |
| 28 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 anxious | nsubj |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 anxious | advmod |
| 30 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sure | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 leave | mark |
| 32 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 anxious | xcomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 leave | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 leave | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Christ | the boy | Paradise | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into paradise=Destination | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Christ not said here | boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Christ's place | there | for Christ; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the boy | none nsubj; anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | place | day | vn keep-15.2 «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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