Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 25
There is this poor nobleman who can turn evidence on you.
Who acts: poor nobleman · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: evidence
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor nobleman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 nobleman | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nobleman | amod |
| 5 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | aux |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nobleman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | this poor nobleman | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | can | this poor nobleman | evidence | on you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent evidence=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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