Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 100
Then the husband drove up and said straight out to the smith: “Make a young man of me, please!”
Who acts: husband · What happens: drive up, say, make · To what, where: smith, young man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drove | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 husband | det |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 drove | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drove | conj |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 out | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 smith | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smith | det |
| 12 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Make | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Make | punct |
| 15 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 man | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 please | punct |
| 22 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 15 Make | discourse |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Make | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive up | past | the husband | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the husband not said here | the smith | out property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to smith=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | a young man of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=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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