Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 27
Donotknow shook off his oxhide, took the bladder from his head, summoned his good horse and rode out, so fair a youth as no tale can tell and no pen can write.
Who acts: Donotknow, tale, pen · What happens: shake off, take, summon, ride out, tell, write · To what, where: oxhide, bladder, head, good horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Donotknow, tale, pen), 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 | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bladder | det |
| 9 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 summoned | punct |
| 14 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summoned | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 summoned | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 rode | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fair | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 fair | advmod |
| 23 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 youth | det |
| 25 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fair | nsubj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 tell | mark |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 tale | det |
| 28 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tell | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 tell | aux |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fair | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 write | cc |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 pen | det |
| 33 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 write | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 write | aux |
| 35 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 tell | conj |
| 36 | . | . | 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 | past | Donotknow not said here | the bladder | Donotknow's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bladder=Theme from head=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | summon | past | Donotknow's good horse | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | ride out | past | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | can | no tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | write | can | no pen | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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