Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 11
And again she spoke in this wise: “Come and do fornication with me, good youth.
Who acts: Ilyá · What happens: speak, come, do · To what, where: wise, good youth, fornication · 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 (Ilyá), 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 | _ | 4 spoke | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wise | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 wise | nsubj |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoke | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Come | conj |
| 13 | fornication | fornication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 youth | punct |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 youth | amod |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Ilyá | wise this | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | Ilyá not said here | good youth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | Ilyá not said here | fornication | with Ilyá | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fornication=Eventuality |
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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