Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 117
So the sentry-guard told the Corporal, the Corporal told the Officer, and the Officer told the General, and the General told the King himself.
Who acts: sentry guard, Corporal, Officer, General · What happens: tell · To what, where: Corporal, Officer, General, guard, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sentry guard, Corporal, Officer, General), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guard | det |
| 3 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guard | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sentry | punct |
| 5 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Corporal | det |
| 8 | Corporal | Corporal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Corporal | det |
| 11 | Corporal | Corporal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Corporal | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Officer | det |
| 14 | Officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 told | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Officer | det |
| 18 | Officer | Officer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 General | det |
| 21 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 General | det |
| 25 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 told | nsubj |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 told | obj |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 told | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the sentry guard | the Corporal | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent corporal=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Corporal | the Corporal not said here | the Officer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Officer | the General | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent general=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the General | guard | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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