Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 161
Evidently I have given bad care, I have done little work; and now am I to become angry?”
Who acts: I · What happens: give, do, become · To what, where: bad care, little work
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 (I), 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 | Evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 4 given | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 care | amod |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 given | advcl |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 work | amod |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 become | cc |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 become | advmod |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 become | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 become | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 become | mark |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | advcl |
| 20 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 become | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 angry | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | bad care | evidently property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | I | little work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | become | present | I | now | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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