Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 17
“I know enough, for you say yourself ‘too knowing is too old.’”
Who acts: Bába, you · What happens: know, say, be · To what, where: yourself · 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 (Bába, you), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 know | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowing | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 knowing | advmod |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 say | advcl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knowing | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Bába | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | yourself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | old property | tree rules |
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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