Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 20

The blind man sprang out of the hut and said: “We must build a big faggot-heap and burn the old hag and scatter her ashes to the four winds.”

Who acts: blind man, We · What happens: spring out, say, build, burn, scatter · To what, where: hut, big faggot heap, old hag, ashes · 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, We), 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 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 hut	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprang	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 build	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 build	punct
13	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 build	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 build	aux
15	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 heap	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heap	amod
18	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heap	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 faggot	punct
20	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 build	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 burn	cc
22	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 build	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hag	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hag	amod
25	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burn	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 scatter	cc
27	scatter	scatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 build	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ashes	nmod:poss
29	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scatter	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 winds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 winds	det
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 winds	nummod
33	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scatter	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 build	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spring out	past	the blind man	the hut		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hut=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the blind man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	build in a quote	must	We	a big faggot heap		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product
4	burn in a quote	infinitive	We not said here	the old hag		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hag=Theme
5	scatter in a quote	infinitive	We not said here	Bába's ashes	to the four winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=Theme

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 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 20