Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 29
All his former superiors appeared in front of the soldier, scolded him and threatened him with the punishment of death.
Who acts: former superiors · What happens: appear, scold, threaten, punish · To what, where: front, host, death
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (former superiors), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 superiors | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 superiors | nmod:poss |
| 3 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 superiors | amod |
| 4 | superiors | superior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 soldier | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 front | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scolded | punct |
| 12 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 scolded | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 threatened | cc |
| 15 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scolded | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 threatened | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 punishment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 punishment | det |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threatened | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 punishment | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | host's former superiors | front of the soldier | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | scold | past | host | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | threaten | past | host | with the punishment of death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | punish | death | nom punishment «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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