Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 102
He did not wish to go himself, for he did not wish to die; and if he dismissed the old man, it was very hard to part.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: not wish, go, die, dismiss, be · To what, where: Iván, old man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 go | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wish | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 wish | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wish | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wish | advmod |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 die | mark |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wish | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 dismissed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dismissed | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 dismissed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dismissed | nsubj |
| 20 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dismissed | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hard | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hard | expl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 hard | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 hard | advmod |
| 28 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wish | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 part | mark |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hard | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | Iván | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | Iván | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | Iván | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | Iván not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | dismiss a condition, not said to happen | past | Iván | the old man | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | part advcl; hard property | 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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