Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 70
And then Alyósha Popóvich cried out, “Túgarin, I thank you, Túgarin Zmyéyevich, for the steel knife: I will tear out your white breast, I will gouge out your bright eyes, and I will gaze on your mettlesome heart.”
Who acts: Alyósha · What happens: cry out, thank, tear out, gouge out, gaze · To what, where: Túgarin, you, white breast, bright 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Alyósha | flat |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cried | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Túgarin | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Túgarin | punct |
| 9 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thank | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thank | nsubj |
| 12 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Túgarin | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thank | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Túgarin | punct |
| 15 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Túgarin | conj |
| 16 | Zmyéyevich | Zmyéyevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Túgarin | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knife | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 knife | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knife | det |
| 20 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knife | compound |
| 21 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 tear | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tear | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 tear | aux |
| 25 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 tear | compound:prt |
| 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 | 25 tear | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gouge | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 gouge | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 gouge | aux |
| 33 | gouge | gouge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tear | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 gouge | compound:prt |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gouge | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 gaze | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gaze | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 gaze | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 gaze | aux |
| 42 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 heart | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 heart | nmod:poss |
| 45 | mettlesome | mettlesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 heart | amod |
| 46 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gaze | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 gaze | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 gaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | Alyósha | Túgarin and Túgarin | then | for the steel knife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for knife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | Alyósha | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tear out in a quote | future | Alyósha | your white breast | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location breast=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gouge out in a quote | future | Alyósha | your bright eyes | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | gaze in a quote | future | Alyósha | on your mettlesome heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on heart=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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