Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 79
He was pitilessly beaten, and was scarcely left alive, and could hardly leave the town.
What happens: beat, leave · To what, where: Tsar, town
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beaten | aux:pass |
| 3 | pitilessly | pitilessly | ADV | _ | 4 beaten | advmod |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 8 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 9 left | advmod |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beaten | conj |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 left | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leave | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | aux |
| 14 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 leave | advmod |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beaten | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · passive | Tsar | pitilessly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | alive, scarcely property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | leave | could | the town | hardly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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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