Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 12, sentence 97
Said the old man: “That is for the thief who ate up my wafers.”
Who acts: old man, That, thief · What happens: say, be, eat up · To what, where: wafers · 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, That, thief), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thief | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 thief | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thief | cop |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 thief | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thief | det |
| 11 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ate | nsubj |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thief | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 ate | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wafers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wafers | wafer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ate | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thief | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | That | for the thief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat up in a quote | past | the thief | my wafers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wafer=Patient |
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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