Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 42
“Almighty Tsar, I am bringing you some wonderful goods, which I will show to nobody except you.”
Who acts: Almighty Tsar · What happens: bring, show · To what, where: wonderful goods, you, nobody
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 (Almighty Tsar), 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 | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 2 | Almighty | almighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Tsar | nummod |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tsar | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bringing | aux |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | obj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 goods | det |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goods | amod |
| 11 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 bringing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 show | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 show | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bringing | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 nobody | case |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 show | obl |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 nobody | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · progressive | Almighty Tsar | some wonderful goods | you | I nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination goods=Theme | ||
| 2 | show in a quote | future | nobody except you | which nsubj; I nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to nobody=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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