Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 148
I have undertaken to discover for the king where his daughters go by night.”
Who acts: I, daughters · What happens: undertake, discover, go
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, daughters), 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 undertaken | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 undertaken | aux |
| 3 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 discover | mark |
| 5 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 undertaken | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undertaken | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 undertaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | present · perfect | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | I not said here | night | for the king | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | go | present | king's daughters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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