Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 35
“We shall never be oblivious of your services: let us kill and eat them.”
Who acts: We, us, your · What happens: not be, let, kill, eat, service · To what, where: us, Bear
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, us, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 oblivious | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 oblivious | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 oblivious | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 oblivious | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 oblivious | cop |
| 6 | oblivious | oblivious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 services | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 services | nmod:poss |
| 9 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oblivious | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 oblivious | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eat | cc |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 oblivious | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 oblivious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | shall | We | of your services; oblivious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | Bear | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | service in a quote | your | nom service «act 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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