Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 35
“Henceforth, entice them all into the house and never let them go.
Who acts: you, men · What happens: entice, not let, go · To what, where: men, house
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 (you, men), 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 | _ | 4 entice | punct |
| 2 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 4 entice | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Henceforth | punct |
| 4 | entice | entice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entice | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entice | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 entice | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entice in a quote | imperative | you not said here | men = man | into the house result; henceforth property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into house=Result | |||
| 2 | not let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | men = man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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