Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 68

And they answered, “How should we not come home?—wild beasts from all the four quarters of the world assembled round us and almost tore us to bits.”

Who acts: poles, we, four quarters · What happens: answer, not come, assemble, tore · To what, where: wild beasts, us · 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 (poles, we, four quarters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
6	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 come	advmod
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 beasts	punct
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beasts	amod
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 answered	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	20 quarters	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 quarters	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 quarters	det
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 quarters	nummod
20	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beasts	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 quarters	nmod
24	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 quarters	acl
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 assembled	advmod
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 assembled	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tore	cc
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 tore	advmod
29	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 assembled	conj
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tore	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 bits	case
32	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tore	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: ask	past	poles = pole	wild beasts from all four quarters of the world		tree rules
2	not come in a quote	should	we		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	assemble in a quote	participle	all four quarters of the world not said here	us	round property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tore in a quote	past	all four quarters of the world not said here	us	to bits; almost property	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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 68