Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 44
Then the soldier made use of his devil: “There are twelve carts; pile them all high at once with gold.”
Who acts: soldier, twelve carts, made use · What happens: make, use, be, pile · To what, where: carts
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, twelve carts, made use), 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 use | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 use | amod |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pile | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 devil | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 devil | nmod:poss |
| 8 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 use | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 pile | advcl |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 carts | nummod |
| 14 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 are | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 pile | punct |
| 16 | pile | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pile | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 high | det |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pile | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 high | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 high | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 pile | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | use | the soldier | then | of soldier's devil | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | twelve carts | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pile in a quote | infinitive | made use | carts = cart | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
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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