Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 49
So he called the little devil and said, “Now my service is over: turn me into a youth.”
Who acts: Tsar, service, my · What happens: call, say, be, turn, service · To what, where: little devil, Tsar, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tsar, service, my), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 devil | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 devil | amod |
| 6 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 turn | advmod |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 service | nmod:poss |
| 13 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 over | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 over | cop |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 Now | ccomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 turn | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 youth | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 youth | det |
| 21 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Tsar | the little devil | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent devil=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tsar not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my service | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn in a quote | infinitive | Tsar | a youth | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme into youth=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | service in a quote | my | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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