Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 109
“In that case it is no good running oneself off one’s legs.
Who acts: case · What happens: be, run off · To what, where: case, oneself
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (case), 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 | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 case | det |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 good | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 good | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 good | advcl |
| 10 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 running | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 running | compound:prt |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 legs | nummod |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 one | case |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 running | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | case | that case | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run off in a quote | gerund | case not said here | oneself | one legs obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oneself=Trajectory |
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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