Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 47
But he kept back four iron shafts and put them into his pocket, for he thought: “Later I may make use of them!”
Who acts: Katomá, servant · What happens: keep back, put, think, make, use · To what, where: four iron shafts, shafts, pocket, use · 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 (Katomá, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 kept | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 shafts | nummod |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shafts | compound |
| 7 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pocket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl | ||
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 thought | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 20 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 make | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kept | parataxis |
| 24 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep back | past | Katomá | four iron shafts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Katomá not said here | shafts = shaft | Katomá's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Katomá | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | may | servant | use of shafts | late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | |||
| 5 | use in a quote | shafts = shaft | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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