Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 68
Do not fear a man who sings songs; but fear a man who slumbers!”
Who acts: you, man · What happens: not fear, sing, fear, slumber · To what, where: man, songs
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 fear | advmod |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fear | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sings | nsubj |
| 7 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sings | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fear | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fear | cc |
| 11 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fear | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fear | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 slumbers | nsubj |
| 15 | slumbers | slumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 man | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear | imperative · do-support | you not said here | a man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | a man | songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | infinitive | you not said here | a man and slumbers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | slumber | a man and slumbers | 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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