Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 67
So the wolf ran up to the ram—ran up and said: “Ram, I am going to eat you—it is the command of the Lord.”
Who acts: wolf, ram · What happens: run up, say, go, eat, be · To what, where: Ram, you, command · 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 (wolf, ram), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ram | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ram | det |
| 8 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ram | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ram | punct |
| 16 | Ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ran | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 going | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 command | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 command | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 command | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 command | det |
| 28 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Lord | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Lord | det |
| 31 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 command | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 command | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 command | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the wolf | to the ram | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run up | past | the wolf not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf not said here | Ram | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the wolf = wolf | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the wolf = wolf not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | ram | the command | of the Lord | tree rules |
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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