Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 36
“We,” they answered, “are doctors, and we can cure the Tsarévna.”
Who acts: We · What happens: answer, be, cure · To what, where: doctors, Tsarévna · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doctors | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 doctors | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 doctors | cop |
| 10 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 answered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cure | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cure | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cure | aux |
| 15 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tsarévna | det |
| 17 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cure | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cure | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | We | henchmen = henchman nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | doctors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cure in a quote | can | we | the Tsarévna | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer tsarévna=Source |
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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