Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 67
Whither should the youths betake themselves for concealment?
Who acts: youths · What happens: betake · To what, where: directions
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths), 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 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 betake | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 betake | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youths | det |
| 4 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 betake | nsubj |
| 5 | betake | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 betake | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 concealment | case |
| 8 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 betake | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 betake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betake | should | the youths | directions = direction | for concealment; whither property | 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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