Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 13
“Sit on my back, on the grey Wolf: I will take you wherever you require.”
Who acts: you, Iván · What happens: sit, take, require · To what, where: back, you
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, Iván), 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 | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 2 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sit | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Sit | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 require | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 require | nsubj |
| 18 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my back | on the grey Wolf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | Iván | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | require in a quote | present | you | wherever property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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