Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 155
I went in front of the house and cried, and the Unholy Spirit soon snatched me on the spot, carried me here; and I have never left the place since.”
Who acts: I, Unholy Spirit · What happens: go, cry, snatch, carry, not leave · To what, where: front, me, spot, place
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 (I, Unholy Spirit), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 front | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snatched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 snatched | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Spirit | det |
| 13 | Unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Spirit | amod |
| 14 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 snatched | nsubj |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 snatched | advmod |
| 16 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 snatched | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snatched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 snatched | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 carried | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 left | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 left | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 left | advmod |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 place | det |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | obj |
| 33 | since | since | ADV | _ | 30 left | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | front of the house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | snatch | past | the Unholy Spirit | me | the spot | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 4 | carry | past | the Unholy Spirit not said here | me | here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 5 | not leave | present · perfect | I | the place | since property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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