Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 8
“Very well,” said the soldier, “I will undertake the contract; but I require in return to get anything my soul hankers after.”
Who acts: soldier, soul · What happens: say, undertake, require, get, hanker · To what, where: contract, return, anything · 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 (soldier, soul), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 undertake | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 undertake | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 undertake | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 undertake | aux |
| 13 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 contract | det |
| 15 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undertake | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 require | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 require | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 require | nsubj |
| 19 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 return | case |
| 21 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 require | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 require | advcl |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 get | obj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 soul | nmod:poss |
| 26 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hankers | nsubj |
| 27 | hankers | hanker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | advcl |
| 28 | after | after | ADV | _ | 27 hankers | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | undertake in a quote | future | the soldier = soldier | the contract | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contract=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | require in a quote | present | the soldier = soldier | return | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | the soldier = soldier not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hanker in a quote | present | my soul | after property | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |
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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