Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 82
Leave us alive; for robbers some time ago took away all we had, and now we only carry bricks, such bricks as we made on the island.”
Who acts: you, robbers, we · What happens: leave, take away, have, carry, make · To what, where: us, bricks, island
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 (you, robbers, we), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Leave | xcomp |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 robbers | case |
| 6 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | nsubj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 robbers | advmod |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 took | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 had | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 carry | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 carry | advmod |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 21 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bricks | punct |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bricks | amod |
| 24 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bricks | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 made | mark |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 island | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 island | det |
| 30 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | us | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | take away | past | robbers | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | we | all property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | we | bricks and such bricks | now | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | past | we | the island | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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