Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 61
The soldier said: “Your Imperial Majesty, there is nobody in the world who can cure you.
Who acts: soldier, nobody · What happens: say, be, cure · To what, where: Imperial Majesty, 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, nobody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Majesty | amod |
| 8 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Majesty | acl:relcl |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 is | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nobody | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cure | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cure | aux |
| 18 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nobody | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 cure | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | Your Imperial Majesty ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | nobody in the world | Your Imperial Majesty not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot majesty=Theme | |||
| 3 | cure in a quote | can | you | who nsubj | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source |
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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