Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 118
Then the old man asked him: “Tell me, good man, what do you wish?
Who acts: old man, end · What happens: ask, tell, wish · To what, where: end, good man, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, end), 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 | 5 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 asked | iobj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
| 9 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Tell | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 wish | obj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wish | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | end | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the old man not said here | good man | the old man = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | end | good man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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