Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 122
“How should I take anything of you?—you are old and poor.”
Who acts: soldier, you · What happens: take, be · To what, where: anything
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 (soldier, you), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 take | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 take | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 poor | cc |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 old | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | should | the soldier = soldier | anything of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules |
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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