Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 11
“Let him tear me to bits; I cannot live without you.”
Who acts: you, Márya, horse · What happens: let, tear, not live · To what, where: Márya, horse
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 (you, Márya, horse), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tear | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bits | case |
| 7 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tear | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 live | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 live | advmod |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 live | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Márya | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear in a quote | infinitive | Márya not said here | the horse = horse | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to bit=Result | |||
| 3 | not live in a quote | can | the horse = horse | without you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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