Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 100
He submitted to his torturers and thought: “If I must suffer, still the Tsarévich will soon learn something of what trouble is.”
Who acts: servant, Tsarévich · What happens: submit, think, suffer, learn, be · To what, where: something, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, Tsarévich), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 submitted | nsubj |
| 2 | submitted | submit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 torturers | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 torturers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | torturers | torturer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 submitted | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 submitted | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 suffer | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suffer | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | aux |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 learn | punct |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 learn | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsarévich | det |
| 17 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 learn | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 learn | aux |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 learn | advmod |
| 20 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 suffer | conj |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 learn | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 something | nmod |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 trouble | cop |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | submit | past | servant | to servant's torturers | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to torturer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | servant not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suffer a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | must | servant | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | learn in a quote | future | the Tsarévich | something | still | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | trouble | tree rules |
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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