Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 95
Katomá will not obey me, but is purposely taking the horses over all the cobbles and into all the ditches, as if he wanted to destroy us.
Who acts: Katomá · What happens: not obey, take, want, destroy · To what, where: me, horses, cobbles, us
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), 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 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 obey | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 obey | advmod |
| 4 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | aux |
| 9 | purposely | purposely | ADV | _ | 10 taking | advmod |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 obey | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horses | det |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 cobbles | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cobbles | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cobbles | det |
| 16 | cobbles | cobble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ditches | cc |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 ditches | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ditches | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ditches | det |
| 21 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cobbles | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wanted | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 wanted | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 wanted | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 destroy | mark |
| 28 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wanted | xcomp |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 destroy | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not obey | future | Katomá | me | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present · progressive | Katomá not said here | the horses | all cobbles and all ditches | purposely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||
| 3 | want | past | Katomá | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Katomá not said here | us | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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