Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 15, sentence 49
“I cannot weave and spin the linen,” said the old woman; “only a maiden can who is staying with me.”
Who acts: old woman, maiden · What happens: not weave, spin, say, stay · To what, where: linen · 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 (old woman, maiden), 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 weave | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 weave | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 weave | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 weave | advmod |
| 5 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spin | cc |
| 7 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weave | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 linen | det |
| 9 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spin | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weave | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weave | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 staying | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 staying | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 maiden | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 staying | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 staying | aux |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 staying | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 staying | aux |
| 24 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 staying | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 staying | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not weave in a quote | can | the old woman = woman | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spin in a quote | infinitive | the old woman = woman not said here | the linen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent linen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | can · progressive | a maiden | with the old woman = woman; who nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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