Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 149
“Oh, this is a difficult task, but it can be done.
Who acts: this, difficult task · What happens: be, do · To what, where: difficult task, task
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 (this, difficult task), 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 | _ | 8 task | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 task | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 task | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 task | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 task | det |
| 7 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 task | amod |
| 8 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 task | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 task | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | a difficult task | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can · passive | a difficult task not said here | task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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