Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 123
“Don’t think of my poverty,” he replied.
Who acts: you, fellow · What happens: not think, reply · 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 (you, fellow), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 poverty | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 poverty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | of my poverty | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | fellow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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