Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 4
I will this very instant run into the _boyárs’_ palace; I will in an instant cook the grill; by day and night I will knock and drive away the _boyárs_.
Who acts: I · What happens: knock, drive away · To what, where: boyárs, instant run
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 run | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 instant | advmod |
| 5 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 run | amod |
| 6 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boyárs | det |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 boyárs | punct |
| 10 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 10 boyárs | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 palace | punct |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 grill | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 will | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 grill | aux |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cook | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cook | det |
| 19 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cook | amod |
| 20 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 will | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grill | det |
| 22 | grill | grill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 knock | punct |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knock | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 night | cc |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 knock | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 knock | aux |
| 30 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 run | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 drive | cc |
| 32 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 knock | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 drive | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 boyárs | det |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 boyárs | punct |
| 36 | boyárs | boyár | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 drive | obj |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 30 knock | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | future | I | day | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | drive away | infinitive | I not said here | the boyárs | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme boyár=Trajectory |
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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