Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 107
Donotknow shook off his oxhide, took off his bladder, went into the open fields, burnt one of the hairs, and cried out in a grim voice with a knightly whistle.
Who acts: Donotknow · What happens: shake off, take off, go, cry out · To what, where: oxhide, bladder, open fields, grim voice
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Donotknow), 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 | Donotknow | Donotknow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 shook | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 oxhide | nmod:poss |
| 5 | oxhide | oxhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bladder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fields | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fields | det |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fields | amod |
| 16 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 18 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fields | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hairs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hairs | det |
| 22 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cried | cc |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 cried | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 voice | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 29 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 voice | amod |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cried | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 whistle | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 whistle | det |
| 33 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 whistle | amod |
| 34 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cried | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake off | past | Donotknow | Donotknow's oxhide | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent oxhide=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take off | past | Donotknow's bladder | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the open fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | Donotknow not said here | a grim voice | with a knightly whistle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with whistle=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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