Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 19
And he had only one thought in his mind, how he should make himself wise and revenge himself on the Tsarévna for her unkind jest.
Who acts: youth, revenge · What happens: have, make, mind, jest · To what, where: one thought, mind, youth
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, revenge), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thought | nummod |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 make | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Tsarévna | cc |
| 18 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Tsarévna | nsubj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 revenge | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 Tsarévna | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Tsarévna | det |
| 22 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 make | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 jest | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 jest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 jest | amod |
| 26 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | youth | one thought | youth's mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | should | youth | youth | for revenge's unkind jest; the Tsarévna revenge youth conj; wise property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Product for jest=Asset | |||
| 3 | mind | youth | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | jest | revenge | nom jest «communication intransitive»: 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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