Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 71

And at that mighty host and fray, Ilyá Múromets was afraid, but he placed himself at the will of the Saviour, and thought how he would sacrifice his head for the Christian faith.

Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, host · What happens: be, place, think, sacrifice · To what, where: mighty host, host, Saviour, head · 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 (Ilyá Múromets, host), 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	_	12 afraid	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 host	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 host	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 host	amod
5	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 afraid	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fray	cc
7	fray	fray	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 host	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 host	punct
9	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Múromets	compound
10	Múromets	múromet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 afraid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 placed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 placed	nsubj
16	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	parataxis
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 placed	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	23 Saviour	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Saviour	det
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 Saviour	aux
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Saviour	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Saviour	det
23	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 sacrifice	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sacrifice	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sacrifice	aux
30	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thought	ccomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sacrifice	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 faith	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 faith	det
35	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 faith	amod
36	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sacrifice	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ilyá Múromets		that mighty host and fray	afraid property	tree rules
2	place	past	host	host	the Saviour		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at saviour=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	host not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	sacrifice	would	host	host's head		for the Christian faith	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent head=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 71