Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 124
In the morning the widow told her sister: “Go and scrape up any flour you can find in the corn-bin; possibly we may make a tiny pancake so as to feed our guests.”
Who acts: widow, sister, we · What happens: tell, go, scrape up, find, make, feed · To what, where: sister, flour, corn bin, tiny pancake, guests · 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 (widow, sister, we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 widow | det |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Go | punct |
| 11 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scrape | cc |
| 13 | scrape | scrape | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 Go | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 scrape | compound:prt |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 flour | det |
| 16 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scrape | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 flour | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bin | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bin | det |
| 22 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bin | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 corn | punct |
| 24 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 make | punct |
| 26 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 29 make | advmod |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 make | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 make | aux |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Go | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pancake | det |
| 31 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pancake | amod |
| 32 | pancake | pancake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 make | obj |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 feed | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 feed | mark |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 feed | mark |
| 36 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 make | advcl |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 guests | nmod:poss |
| 38 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 feed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Go | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the widow | WIDOW's sister | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | scrape up in a quote | infinitive | any flour | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Patient | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | can | WIDOW's sister = sister | any flour not said here | the corn bin | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Topic | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | may | we | a tiny pancake | possibly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=Product | |||
| 6 | feed in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | our guests | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient |
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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