Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 55
The old man then said to the pope: “Let us bury all the money in the earth and again go a-healing.”
Who acts: old man, us · What happens: say, let, bury, go · To what, where: pope, us, money, earth, healing · 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, us), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pope | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pope | det |
| 8 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 11 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Let | obj |
| 13 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 money | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bury | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bury | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Let | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 healing | det |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 a | punct |
| 25 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | the pope | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pope=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bury in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | all money | the earth | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in earth=Destination | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | a healing | again | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location healing=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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