Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 9

Then they crossed a bridge: the poor man considered that he would hardly escape the Court with his life; so he jumped over the bridge, in order to commit suicide.

Who acts: food, poor man, man · What happens: cross, consider, escape, jump, commit · To what, where: bridge, Court, suicide

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 (food, poor man, man), 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 crossed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crossed	nsubj
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 considered	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 considered	nsubj
10	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crossed	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 escape	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 escape	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 escape	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 escape	advmod
15	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 considered	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Court	det
17	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escape	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 life	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escape	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 jumped	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 jumped	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 jumped	nsubj
24	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crossed	parataxis
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 bridge	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bridge	det
27	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumped	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 commit	punct
29	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 commit	mark
30	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 in	fixed
31	to	to	PART	_	32 commit	mark
32	commit	commit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 jumped	conj
33	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 commit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	food	a bridge		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
2	consider	past	the poor man					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	escape	would	man	the Court			with man's life; hardly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Initial_Location
4	jump	past	man		the bridge			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory
5	commit	to-infinitive	man not said here	suicide				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suicide=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 21, sentence 9