Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 11, sentence 66
Then the crow said, “Grey Wolf, I will do this service; only do not touch my son.”
Who acts: crow · What happens: say, do, not touch · To what, where: service, son · 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 (crow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wolf | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Wolf | punct |
| 7 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Wolf | amod |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 touch | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 touch | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 touch | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 touch | advmod |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touch | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 touch | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | then | Grey Wolf ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | the crow = crow | this service | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not touch in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my son | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Co-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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