Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 50
Then Alyósha spoke in this wise: “I thank you, Túgarin Zmyéyevich; you have given me a steel knife: I will break your white breast, I will put out your clear eyes, and I will behold your mettlesome heart.”
Who acts: Alyósha, you · What happens: speak, thank, give, break, put out, behold · To what, where: wise, you, steel knife, Alyósha, white breast, clear eyes · 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 (Alyósha, you), 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 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wise | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wise | nsubj |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 thank | nsubj |
| 10 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 thank | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Túgarin | punct |
| 13 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thank | vocative |
| 14 | Zmyéyevich | Zmyéyevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Túgarin | flat |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 given | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 spoke | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 given | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 knife | det |
| 21 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knife | compound |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 break | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 break | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 break | aux |
| 26 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 breast | nmod:poss |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 breast | amod |
| 29 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 break | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 put | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 put | aux |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 break | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 put | compound:prt |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 put | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 behold | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 behold | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 behold | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 behold | aux |
| 42 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 break | conj |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 heart | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mettlesome | mettlesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 heart | amod |
| 45 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 behold | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 break | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Alyósha | wise this | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Alyósha | you | Túgarin vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · perfect | you | a steel knife | Alyósha | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient knife=Theme | |||
| 4 | break in a quote | future | Alyósha | your white breast | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breast=Patient | ||||
| 5 | put out in a quote | future | Alyósha | your clear eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | ||||
| 6 | behold in a quote | future | Alyósha | your mettlesome heart | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=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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