Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 45
So he called Katomá, and he told him to bring the iron column into the kitchen and to hew it into small logs as fuel for the cook.
Who acts: servant · What happens: call, tell, bring, hew · To what, where: Katomá, iron column, kitchen, column, small logs · 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), 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 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 column | det |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 column | compound |
| 14 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 kitchen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kitchen | det |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hew | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hew | mark |
| 20 | hew | hew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bring | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hew | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 logs | case |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 logs | amod |
| 24 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hew | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 fuel | case |
| 26 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hew | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 cook | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cook | det |
| 29 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fuel | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | servant | Katomá | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent katomá=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | servant | Katomá | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | servant not said here | the iron column | the kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent column=Theme into kitchen=Destination | |||
| 4 | hew | to-infinitive | servant not said here | column | into small logs result; as fuel for the cook | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into log=Result |
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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