Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 99
Look at the beast that is traipsing up and down our courtyard: get rid of him.”
Who acts: you, beast · What happens: look, traipse, get · To what, where: courtyard
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 (you, beast), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 beast | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 traipsing | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 traipsing | aux |
| 7 | traipsing | traipse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 beast | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 traipsing | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 down | cc |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 up | conj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 12 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 traipsing | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 15 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at the beast | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | traipse | present · progressive | the beast | our courtyard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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