Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 51
“I invoke the servant, a man, a fighter, in the host, who goeth to war with these my potent words.
Who acts: soldier, host, my · What happens: invoke, go, word · To what, where: servant, war
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, host, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 invoke | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 invoke | nsubj |
| 3 | invoke | invoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invoke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servant | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fighter | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fighter | det |
| 11 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servant | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 host | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 host | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 host | det |
| 15 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invoke | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 goeth | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 goeth | nsubj |
| 18 | goeth | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 host | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 war | case |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 goeth | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 22 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 words | nsubj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 words | nmod:poss |
| 24 | potent | potent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 war | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invoke in a quote | present | a soldier = soldier | the servant and a man and a fighter | the host conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | the host | war with my potent words these | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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