Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 118
I have come to you to be tortured for my sins.”
Who acts: I · What happens: come, torture · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tortured | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tortured | aux:pass |
| 8 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 come | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sins | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sins | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tortured | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | torture | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | for my sins | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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