Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 78
And when they had loaded it to the full, the old man said: “Now, Ivánushka, you must also make some plain bricks in order that buccaneers may not steal the valuable ones.”
Who acts: bricks, old man, Ivánushka, order, plain bricks · What happens: load, say, make, buccaneer, not steal · To what, where: ship, valuable ones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bricks, old man, Ivánushka, order), 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 | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 loaded | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loaded | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loaded | aux |
| 5 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 loaded | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 full | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 full | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 loaded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 17 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 Ivánushka | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ivánushka | punct |
| 19 | Ivánushka | Ivánushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 make | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ivánushka | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 make | advmod |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 bricks | det |
| 26 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bricks | amod |
| 27 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 steal | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 order | case |
| 29 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bricks | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 buccaneers | nsubj |
| 31 | buccaneers | buccaneer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 order | acl:relcl |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 steal | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 steal | advmod |
| 34 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 make | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ones | det |
| 36 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ones | amod |
| 37 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 steal | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past · perfect | bricks = brick | ship | to the full | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | must | Ivánushka | you nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | buccaneer in a quote | present | order | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not steal in a quote | may | some plain bricks in order | the valuable ones | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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