Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 134
“Go,” said the Saviour to him, “to the old widow and eat her cow with the calf.”
Who acts: Saviour · What happens: go, say, eat · To what, where: Lord, cow · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Saviour | det |
| 7 | Saviour | Saviour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 widow | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 widow | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 widow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 widow | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 widow | amod |
| 15 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eat | cc |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 widow | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 calf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 calf | det |
| 22 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 widow | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 widow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Saviour | Lord | the old widow ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | the Saviour not said here | Saviour's cow | with the calf | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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