Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 58
And they spake in this wise: “Do you go straight to the city of Kíev, straight to the city of Chernígov, and on your journeying do no one any hurt, spill no Christian blood vainly.”
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: speak, go, journey, spill · To what, where: wise, city, Christian blood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spake | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spake | nsubj |
| 3 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wise | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wise | nsubj |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spake | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spake | conj |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 city | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kíev | case |
| 17 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 city | punct |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 city | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Chernígov | case |
| 24 | Chernígov | Chernígov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 city | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 one | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 one | cc |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 one | nmod:poss |
| 29 | journeying | journey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 one | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 one | aux |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 hurt | det |
| 34 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 one | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 spill | punct |
| 36 | spill | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | parataxis |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 blood | det |
| 38 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 blood | amod |
| 39 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spill | obj |
| 40 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 36 spill | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | mother | wise this | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · do-support | you | the city of Kíev | to the city of Chernígov; on your one any hurt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location to city=Destination | |||
| 3 | journey in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | spill in a quote | present | no Christian blood | vainly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=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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