Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 78
“Let the dog die a dog’s death!” said the old man.
Who acts: dog, old man · What happens: let, die, say · To what, where: dog, death · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dog, old man), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 dog | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die in a quote | infinitive | the dog not said here | a dog's death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | a dog | nom death «event 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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