Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 55
“Give me this glass,” the soldier said, “and I shall never trouble you for anything more.”
Who acts: soldier · What happens: give, say, not trouble · To what, where: glass, soldier, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (soldier), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 glass | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trouble | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 trouble | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 trouble | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 trouble | advmod |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 trouble | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 anything | case |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 trouble | nmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 trouble | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | this glass | the soldier = soldier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient glass=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not trouble in a quote | shall | the soldier = soldier | you | for anything | tree rules |
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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