Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 76
I will go and look out for another old man who can really cure the Tsarévna.”
Who acts: I, old man · What happens: go, look out, cure · To what, where: Tsarévna
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 (I, old man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 look | cc |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 look | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 cure | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cure | aux |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 cure | advmod |
| 14 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tsarévna | det |
| 16 | Tsarévna | Tsarévna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cure | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look out | infinitive | I not said here | for another old man | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cure | can | another old man | 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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