Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 28
But this is the way out: I will send an arrow in this direction, and you all run after it; he who reaches it first shall have the barrel, and the second shall have the flying carpet, and the third shall have the whip.”
Who acts: this, I, you, God, way, second · What happens: be, send, run, reach, have, fly · To what, where: way, arrow, direction, barrel, flying carpet, whip
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 (this, I, you, God), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 way | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 way | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 send | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 send | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 send | aux |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | parataxis |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 arrow | det |
| 12 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 direction | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 direction | det |
| 15 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 run | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 run | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 run | nsubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 send | parataxis |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 run | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 reaches | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reaches | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 reaches | nsubj |
| 26 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reaches | obj |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 reaches | advmod |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 barrel | det |
| 32 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 have | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 second | det |
| 36 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 have | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 have | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 carpet | det |
| 40 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 carpet | amod |
| 41 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 have | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 have | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 third | det |
| 45 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 47 have | nsubj |
| 46 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 have | aux |
| 47 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 have | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 whip | det |
| 49 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 have | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | the way | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | future | I | a arrow | this direction | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme in direction=Destination | |||
| 3 | run | present | you | after way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | present | God | way | first property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | shall | the way | the barrel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | shall | the second | the flying carpet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Patient | ||||
| 7 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | have | shall | the third | the whip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient |
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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