Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 98
So Iváshko went up to the hut, stepped in and said: “Strong giant,[37] spare me, and tell me how I shall get home again.”
Who acts: Iváshko, I · What happens: go up, step in, say, spare, tell, get · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iváshko, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hut | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stepped | punct |
| 9 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 stepped | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stepped | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 giant | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 giant | punct |
| 15 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 giant | amod |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 37 | punct |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 37 | punct |
| 19 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 giant | appos |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 37 | punct |
| 21 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 spare | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stepped | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 get | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 get | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 get | aux |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 tell | advcl |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 get | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 get | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Iváshko | to the hut | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | step in | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Strong giant ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spare in a quote | infinitive | me | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | get in a quote | shall | I | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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