Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 57
Teach me what I must do in order to bear this life.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: teach, do, bear · To what, where: me, order, life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I), 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 | Teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Teach | obj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Teach | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bear | mark |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 life | det |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bear | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teach | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | must | I | order | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | I not said here | this life | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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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