Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 120
“Lo and behold! woman, you said that there was nothing to feed us on,” the Saviour said.
Who acts: you, nothing, Saviour · What happens: say, be, feed on · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, nothing, Saviour), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 behold | cc |
| 4 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 2 Lo | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lo | punct |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lo | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lo | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 feed | mark |
| 15 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 nothing | acl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feed | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 feed | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Saviour | det |
| 21 | Saviour | Saviour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed on in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | us | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Saviour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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