Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 75

Ilyá Múromets went to the city of Kíev straight from Chernígov on the road by the village of Kutúzovo, which the Nightingale Robber had been oppressing for thirty years, not letting any man pass, whether on horseback or on foot, and assailing them not with any weapon, but only with his robber’s whistle.

Who acts: Ilyá Múromets, village, man, robber · What happens: go, oppress, not let, pass, assail, whistle · To what, where: Chernígov, horseback, MÚROMETS

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, village, man, robber), 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	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Múromets	compound
2	Múromets	múromet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Kíev	case
8	Kíev	Kíev	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 city	nmod
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 Chernígov	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Chernígov	case
11	Chernígov	Chernígov	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 road	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Kutúzovo	case
19	Kutúzovo	Kutúzovo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 village	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 oppressing	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 oppressing	nsubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Robber	det
23	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Robber	compound
24	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 oppressing	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 oppressing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 oppressing	aux
27	oppressing	oppress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 village	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 years	case
29	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 oppressing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 letting	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 letting	advmod
33	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 oppressing	advcl
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pass	nsubj
36	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 letting	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 horseback	punct
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	40 horseback	mark
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 horseback	case
40	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pass	obj
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 foot	cc
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 foot	case
43	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 horseback	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 assailing	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 assailing	cc
46	assailing	assail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 oppressing	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 assailing	obj
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 weapon	advmod
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 weapon	case
50	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	51 weapon	det
51	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 assailing	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 whistle	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 whistle	cc
54	only	only	ADV	_	59 whistle	advmod
55	with	with	ADP	_	59 whistle	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 robber	nmod:poss
57	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 whistle	nmod:poss
58	’s	's	PART	_	57 robber	case
59	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ilyá Múromets		Chernígov		to the city of Kíev; on the road by the village of Kutúzovo; with man's robber's whistle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location from chernígov=Destination
2	oppress	past · perfect · progressive	the village of Kutúzovo			year	the Nightingale Robber nsubj	tree rules
3	not let	gerund	the village of Kutúzovo not said here					tree rules
4	pass	infinitive	any man	horseback or foot				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horseback=Trajectory
5	assail	gerund	the village of Kutúzovo not said here	MÚROMETS = múromet			with any weapon	vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	whistle		man's robber					nom whistle «event intransitive»: 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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 75

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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 75