Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 172
Yesterday you kept saying, 'I'll pay you to-morrow,' and now you make just the same promise.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: keep, say, pay, make · To what, where: you, same promise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pay | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pay | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pay | aux |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 pay | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 morrow | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pay | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 make | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 promise | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 promise | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 promise | amod |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | you | yesterday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay | future | I | you | to morrow | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset | |||
| 4 | make | present | you | the same promise | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
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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