Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 35
My lightnings shall glint and my hail beat his field down; then your peasant shall learn right, and regard my name-day.”
Who acts: lightnings, hail, peasant, my · What happens: glint, beat down, learn, regard, hail · To what, where: field
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightnings, hail, peasant, my), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lightnings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lightnings | lightning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glint | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 glint | aux |
| 4 | glint | glint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beat | cc |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beat | nsubj |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glint | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 field | nmod:poss |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beat | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 beat | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 learn | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 learn | advmod |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 peasant | nmod:poss |
| 15 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 learn | aux |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glint | parataxis |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 learn | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 regard | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 regard | cc |
| 21 | regard | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 learn | conj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 day | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 name | punct |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 regard | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glint | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glint | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glint | shall | My lightnings | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beat down | past | my hail | hail's field | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | shall | your peasant | then | right property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | regard | infinitive | your peasant not said here | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hail | my | nom hail «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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