Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 4
“I did not venture to say anything; but if I might, I should like to ask some questions.”
Who acts: Bába · What happens: not venture, say, like, ask · To what, where: anything, questions · 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), 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 | _ | 5 venture | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 venture | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 venture | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 venture | advmod |
| 5 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 venture | xcomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 like | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 might | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 might | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 might | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 venture | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ask | mark |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 questions | det |
| 21 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ask | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 venture | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not venture in a quote | past · do-support | Bába | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Bába not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | should | Bába | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Bába not said here | some questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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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