Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 39
Then the dragon besought Nikíta the tanner: “Do not beat me to death.
Who acts: dragon · What happens: beseech, not beat · To what, where: Nikíta, tanner, death
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 besought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 besought | nsubj |
| 4 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Nikíta | Nikíta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 besought | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tanner | det |
| 7 | tanner | tanner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 besought | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 beat | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 beat | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 beat | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 beat | advmod |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 besought | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 beat | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | the dragon | Nikíta | then | the tanner obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not beat in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the dragon not said here | the tanner = tanner | death | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to death=Recipient |
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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