Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 25
“Cover me over with boards, my sworn brother,” he said.
Who acts: SVYATOGÓR · What happens: cover over, swear, say · To what, where: SVYATOGÓR · 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 (SVYATOGÓR), 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 | _ | 2 Cover | punct |
| 2 | Cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Cover | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 2 Cover | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 boards | case |
| 6 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Cover | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brother | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cover | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cover | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cover | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover over in a quote | infinitive | SVYATOGÓR = svyatogór | with boards; my sworn brother obl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with board=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | SVYATOGÓR = svyatogór | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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