Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 184
And, as he rested, he began thinking things out: “Where shall I now betake myself, and how shall I feed myself, and how the devil shall I enter into any service?”
Who acts: soldier, woman, devil · What happens: rest, begin, think out, betake, feed, enter · To what, where: things, woman, service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, woman, devil), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rested | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rested | nsubj |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 began | xcomp |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thinking | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 thinking | compound:prt |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 betake | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 betake | punct |
| 14 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 betake | advmod |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 betake | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 betake | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 betake | advmod |
| 18 | betake | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | parataxis |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 betake | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feed | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 feed | advmod |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 feed | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 feed | nsubj |
| 25 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 betake | conj |
| 26 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 feed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enter | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 enter | cc |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 enter | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 devil | det |
| 31 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enter | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 enter | aux |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 enter | nsubj |
| 34 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 feed | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 service | case |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 service | det |
| 37 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enter | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | soldier | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | soldier | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think out speech: other | gerund | soldier not said here | things | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | betake in a quote | shall | the woman = woman | the woman = woman | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | feed in a quote | shall | the woman = woman | the woman = woman | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | enter in a quote | shall | the devil | any service | I nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location |
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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