Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 29
“Oh, your Majesty, give me one prisoner who has sat long in the prison; I must have a companion on the road!
Who acts: you, one prisoner, King · What happens: give, sit, have · To what, where: one prisoner, King, prison, companion, road
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one prisoner, King), 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 | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 prisoner | nummod |
| 10 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sat | aux |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 prisoner | acl:relcl |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sat | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 prison | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prison | det |
| 17 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 companion | det |
| 23 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 road | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | one prisoner | the King = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient prisoner=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present · perfect | one prisoner | the prison | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prison=Location | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | must | the King = king | a companion | the road | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient |
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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