Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 15

The blind man seized Bába Yagá by her grey tresses, and cried out, “Ho, Katomá! come out and hold the evil hag till I get into the hut.”

Who acts: blind man, Ho · What happens: seize, cry out, come out, hold, get · To what, where: Bába, evil hag, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind man, Ho), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Bába	Bába	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
6	Yagá	Yagá	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bába	flat
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 tresses	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tresses	nmod:poss
9	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tresses	amod
10	tresses	tress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seized	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 cried	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Katomá	punct
19	Katomá	Katomá	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ho	conj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Ho	punct
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hold	cc
24	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hag	det
26	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hag	amod
27	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hold	obj
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 get	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 get	nsubj
30	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hold	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 hut	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hut	det
33	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the blind man	Bába		by Bába's grey tresses	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bába=Theme
2	cry out speech: express	past	the blind man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come out in a quote	infinitive	Ho and Katomá			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	hold in a quote	infinitive	Ho and Katomá not said here	the evil hag			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Theme
5	get in a quote	present	the blind man = man		the hut		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination

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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 15