Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 85
“I really didn’t; I swear I didn’t!”
Who acts: old man · What happens: not do, swear · 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), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swear | nsubj |
| 8 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swear | ccomp |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 did | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | past | the old man = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | the old man = man | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | past | the old man = man | vn act-114-1 «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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