Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 110

The last year of his service came along, and, to his ill-luck, his superior officers, great and small, did not like him, and as a result he was soundly thrashed.

Who acts: last year, soldier · What happens: come along, not like, thrash, service · To what, where: ill luck, soldier

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 (last year, soldier), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 year	amod
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 service	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 service	nmod:poss
6	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 year	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	along	along	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 luck	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 luck	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 luck	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 luck	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 luck	nmod:poss
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 luck	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 officers	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 officers	nmod:poss
19	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 officers	amod
20	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 luck	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 great	punct
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 officers	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 small	cc
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 great	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 like	advmod
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 like	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 thrashed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 thrashed	cc
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 result	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 result	det
34	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 thrashed	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 thrashed	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 thrashed	aux:pass
37	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	38 thrashed	advmod
38	thrashed	thrash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come along	past	the last year of soldier's service		soldier's ill luck and soldier's superior officers	along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to luck=Initial_Location
2	not like	past · do-support	the last year of soldier's service not said here	soldier			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	thrash	past · passive		soldier		as a result; soundly property	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	service		soldier				nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 110