Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 35
“As a parting gift,” the Devil said to him, “I will give you money, and a splendid horse, and you shall ride home royally.”
Who acts: Devil, Petrúsha · What happens: say, give, ride · To what, where: Petrúsha, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil, Petrúsha), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 gift | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 4 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gift | compound |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gift | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gift | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Devil | det |
| 9 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 horse | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 horse | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 23 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ride | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ride | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 ride | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 ride | aux |
| 29 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 give | conj |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 ride | advmod |
| 31 | royally | royally | ADV | _ | 29 ride | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Devil | Petrúsha | as a parting gift | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the Devil = devil | money | Petrúsha | a splendid horse obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient money=Theme | ||
| 3 | ride in a quote | shall | Petrúsha | home, royally property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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