Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 25
“I have served you well, Iván Tsarévich,” the grey Wolf replied, “and I will serve you yet this service.
Who acts: grey Wolf · What happens: serve, reply · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grey Wolf), 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 | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 served | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | aux |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 served | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 served | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Iván | punct |
| 8 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obl:agent |
| 9 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Iván | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wolf | det |
| 13 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wolf | amod |
| 14 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 serve | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 serve | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 serve | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 serve | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 serve | aux |
| 21 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 serve | obj |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 service | advmod |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 service | det |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 serve | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | present · perfect | the grey Wolf = wolf | you | Iván obl:agent; well property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the grey Wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | serve in a quote | future | the grey Wolf = wolf | you | this service obl | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute |
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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