Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 100
The loser of the bet shall have the money, and shall have his right hand hewn off.”
Who acts: loser, right hand · What happens: have, hewn off · To what, where: money, right hand
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 (loser, right hand), 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 loser | det |
| 2 | loser | loser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bet | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bet | det |
| 5 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loser | nmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 money | det |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | hewn | hewn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 have | xcomp |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 hewn | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | the loser of the bet | the money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | the loser of the bet not said here | loser's right hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hewn off | participle | loser's right hand not said here | tree rules |
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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