Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 120
“I am the blind knight, and for three years I have lived in the wood, feeding myself on the animals I can catch and bake on my fire; otherwise I should have died of hunger.”
Who acts: Katomá, my · What happens: be, live, feed, catch, bake, die · To what, where: blind knight, wood, Katomá, animals
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 (Katomá, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knight | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knight | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knight | amod |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lived | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lived | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | aux |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knight | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 feeding | punct |
| 19 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lived | advcl |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 feeding | iobj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 animals | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 animals | det |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feeding | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 catch | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 catch | aux |
| 26 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 animals | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bake | cc |
| 28 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 catch | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 fire | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 fire | nmod:poss |
| 31 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bake | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 died | punct |
| 33 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 37 died | advmod |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 died | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 died | aux |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 died | aux |
| 37 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knight | acl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 hunger | case |
| 39 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 died | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Katomá | the blind knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present · perfect | Katomá | the wood | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 3 | feed in a quote | gerund | Katomá not said here | Katomá | on the animals | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient | |||
| 4 | catch in a quote | can | Katomá | the animals not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bake in a quote | infinitive | Katomá not said here | on my fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on fire=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | die in a quote | should · perfect | Katomá | the blind knight not said here | of hunger; otherwise property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | fire in a quote | my | nom fire «event 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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