Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 10
“Why did you not listen to my words, and take the golden bridle?”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: not listen, take, word · To what, where: golden bridle
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | _ | 6 listen | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 listen | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 listen | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 listen | advmod |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 listen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 listen | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bridle | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bridle | amod |
| 15 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen in a quote | past · do-support | you | to my words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the golden bridle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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