Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 37
I am dying, and I will leave you my mother’s blessing and this doll.
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: die, leave, bless · To what, where: you
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 (I, mother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dying | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | aux |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leave | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | aux |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dying | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 13 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 doll | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 doll | det |
| 16 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blessing | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | leave | future | I | you | my mother's blessing and this doll obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme blessing=Attribute | |||
| 3 | bless | my mother | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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