Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 22
“She had not desired to escape,” said Christ, “and all of her heart is down there, and she must stay there for all eternity.”
Who acts: soul, Christ, all · What happens: not desire, escape, say, be, stay · 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 (soul, Christ, all), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 desired | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 desired | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 desired | advmod |
| 5 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 escape | mark |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 desired | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 desired | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 desired | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 there | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 there | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 there | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 all | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 there | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stay | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stay | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stay | aux |
| 26 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stay | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 eternity | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 eternity | det |
| 30 | eternity | eternity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stay | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not desire in a quote | past · perfect | soul | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | escape not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | soul not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Christ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | all of soul's heart | down, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stay in a quote | must | soul | there | for all eternity | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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