Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 10
“Oh, Iván Tsarévich, he will catch us up and he will tear you to bits.”
Who acts: Márya · What happens: catch up, tear · To what, where: us, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Márya), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 catch | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 catch | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Iván | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 catch | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 catch | aux |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 catch | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 catch | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tear | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tear | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tear | aux |
| 15 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 catch | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tear | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bits | case |
| 18 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tear | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 catch | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up in a quote | future | Márya | us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear in a quote | future | Márya | you | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to bit=Result |
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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