Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 41
Thresh me all the barley clean, quite clean to the last grain, and do not destroy the hayricks nor beat down the sheaves.
Who acts: you · What happens: thresh, not destroy · To what, where: me, hayricks
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Thresh | thresh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Thresh | obj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 barley | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barley | det |
| 5 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thresh | obj |
| 6 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Thresh | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clean | punct |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 clean | advmod |
| 9 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Thresh | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 grain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grain | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grain | amod |
| 13 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clean | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 destroy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 destroy | cc |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 destroy | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 destroy | advmod |
| 18 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Thresh | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hayricks | det |
| 20 | hayricks | hayrick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 destroy | obj |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 beat | cc |
| 22 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hayricks | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 sheaves | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sheaves | det |
| 25 | sheaves | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 destroy | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thresh | imperative | you not said here | me | all barley obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not destroy | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | the hayricks nor beat | down the sheaves | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hayrick=Patient |
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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