Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 10, sentence 93
Come, sit on me—on the grey Wolf—and say whither I shall take you and wherefore.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, sit, say, take · To what, where: grey Wolf, you · 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 (you, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wolf | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Wolf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Wolf | amod |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 say | cc |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 14 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 take | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wherefore | cc |
| 20 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | you not said here | the grey Wolf | on me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on i=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | take | shall | I | you | whither property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme wherefore=Destination |
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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