Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 64
Three times you took up your gun to shoot me, but I asked you to spare me; and I was thinking in my mind, may you not destroy me but have pity and take me to yourself!”
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: take up, shoot, ask, spare, think, not destroy · To what, where: gun, me, you, mind, pity, yourself
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 (you, I, 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gun | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shoot | mark |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 shoot | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spare | mark |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spare | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 thinking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thinking | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 thinking | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thinking | aux |
| 23 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mind | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thinking | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 destroy | punct |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 destroy | aux |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 destroy | nsubj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 destroy | advmod |
| 31 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | parataxis |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 destroy | obj |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 have | cc |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 destroy | conj |
| 35 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 take | cc |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 destroy | conj |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 yourself | case |
| 40 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 take | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | you | your gun | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoot | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | I | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | spare not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · progressive | I | my mind | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not destroy | may | you | me | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 7 | have | present | you not said here | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||||
| 8 | not take | infinitive | you not said here | me | yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to yourself=Destination | |||
| 9 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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