Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 161
"But whom can I get for you, seeing that I haven't a soul belonging to me?
Who acts: Tartar, soul · What happens: get, see, have, belong · To what, where: soul, Tartar
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tartar, soul), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 get | obj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 get | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seeing | advcl |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 soul | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 soul | det |
| 16 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 soul | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 belonging | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | can | the Tartar = tartar | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent whom=Theme for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | gerund | the Tartar = tartar not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the Tartar = tartar | a soul | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 4 | belong in a quote | gerund | a soul not said here | the Tartar = tartar | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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