Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 115
Then the old man drew his sword and said to it, “Set to work, self-slaying sword, and despoil all the dreamy forest.”
Who acts: old man · What happens: draw, say, set, slay, despoil · To what, where: sword, dreamy forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man), 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 | 5 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Set | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Set | punct |
| 14 | Set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sword | punct |
| 18 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slaying | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 self | punct |
| 20 | slaying | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 sword | amod |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 despoil | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 despoil | cc |
| 24 | despoil | despoil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | parataxis |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 forest | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 27 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forest | amod |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 despoil | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 despoil | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 despoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the old man | man's sword | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man not said here | sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | set in a quote | infinitive | to work and slaying sword | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | slay in a quote | gerund | self compound | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | despoil in a quote | infinitive | all dreamy forest | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Source |
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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