Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 43
He greeted the ministers and said, “Look, gentlemen, what a wife mine is!
Who acts: guslyár, wife mine · What happens: greet, say, look, be · To what, where: ministers, gentlemen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guslyár, wife mine), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 greeted | nsubj |
| 2 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ministers | det |
| 4 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 greeted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 greeted | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Look | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Look | punct |
| 9 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gentlemen | punct |
| 11 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 Look | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mine | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mine | compound |
| 16 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | guslyár | the ministers | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | guslyár not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | gentlemen | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | a wife mine | tree rules |
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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