Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 112
This is a sword which slays of itself: you need only wave it, and however incalculable the force may be it will slay them all in front of it.
Who acts: This, sword, you, force · What happens: be, slay, wave · To what, where: sword, front
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, sword, you, force), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sword | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sword | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sword | det |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 slays | nsubj |
| 6 | slays | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sword | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 itself | case |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 slays | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 wave | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wave | nsubj |
| 11 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wave | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 wave | advmod |
| 13 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sword | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 incalculable | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 incalculable | cc |
| 17 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 incalculable | advmod |
| 18 | incalculable | incalculable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wave | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 force | det |
| 20 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slay | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 slay | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 slay | cop |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slay | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 slay | aux |
| 25 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 incalculable | ccomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slay | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slay | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 front | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay | present | a sword | of sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wave | present | you | sword | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | may · future | the force | front of sword | casks = cask obj; slay property | tree rules |
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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