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Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 118

So the Cossack did not long bethink him, but gave the old man his keg and took the self-slaying sword, waved the sword, and killed the old man.

Who acts: Cossack · What happens: not bethink, give, take, slay, wave, kill · To what, where: man, keg, old man, slaying sword, sword

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 (Cossack), 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

advmoddetnsubjauxadvmodadvmodobjpunctccparataxisdetamodobjnmod:possobjccconjdetcompoundpunctamodobjpunctconjdetobjpunctccconjdetamodobjpunctrootSoADVtheDETCossackNOUNdidAUXnotPARTlongADVbethinkVERBhimPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJgaveVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUNhisPRONkegNOUNandCCONJtookVERBtheDETselfNOUN-PUNCTslayingVERBswordNOUN,PUNCTwavedVERBtheDETswordNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJkilledVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_7 bethinkadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Cossackdet
3CossackcossackNOUNNumber=Sing7 bethinknsubj
4diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 bethinkaux
5notnotPARTPolarity=Neg7 bethinkadvmod
6longlongADVDegree=Pos7 bethinkadvmod
7bethinkbethinkVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 bethinkobj
9,,PUNCT_11 gavepunct
10butbutCCONJ_11 gavecc
11gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 bethinkparataxis
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 mandet
13oldoldADJDegree=Pos14 manamod
14manmanNOUNNumber=Sing11 gaveobj
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 kegnmod:poss
16kegkegNOUNNumber=Sing11 gaveobj
17andandCCONJ_18 tookcc
18tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 gaveconj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 sworddet
20selfselfNOUNNumber=Sing22 slayingcompound
21--PUNCT_20 selfpunct
22slayingslayVERBVerbForm=Ger23 swordamod
23swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing18 tookobj
24,,PUNCT_25 wavedpunct
25wavedwaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 tookconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 sworddet
27swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing25 wavedobj
28,,PUNCT_30 killedpunct
29andandCCONJ_30 killedcc
30killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 tookconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 mandet
32oldoldADJDegree=Pos33 manamod
33manmanNOUNNumber=Sing30 killedobj
34..PUNCT_7 bethinkpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not bethinkpast · do-supportthe Cossackmanlong propertytree rules
2givepastman's kegthe old manvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient keg=Theme
3takepastthe slaying swordvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4slaygerundself compoundvn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5wavepastthe swordvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
6killpastthe old manvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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