Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 13, sentence 7
“Come up to me and inform me how does it stand with the soldier.
Who acts: you, many · What happens: come up, inform, stand · To what, where: me · 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 (you, many), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 inform | cc |
| 7 | inform | inform | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 inform | iobj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stand | advmod |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stand | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stand | nsubj |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 inform | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 soldier | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stand | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up in a quote | imperative | you not said here | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present · do-support | many | with the soldier | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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