Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 48
And he thought for long, and at last he sent for the old woman again, and said: “If you can spin this linen and weave it, perhaps you can make a shirt out of it?”
Who acts: father, you · What happens: think, send, say, spin, weave, make · To what, where: last, linen, shirt · 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 (father, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 long | case |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 spin | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 spin | punct |
| 22 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 spin | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 spin | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 spin | aux |
| 25 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 linen | det |
| 27 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spin | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 weave | cc |
| 29 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 spin | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 weave | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 make | punct |
| 32 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 35 make | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 make | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 make | aux |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 spin | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 shirt | det |
| 37 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 make | obl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 spin | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | father | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | past | father | last | again | for the old woman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | this linen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent linen=Theme | ||||
| 5 | weave in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | linen | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 6 | make in a quote | can | you | a shirt | linen | perhaps property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Product |
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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