Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 72
There is new work to be done—old folks to be turned into young!”
Who acts: new work · What happens: be, do, turn · To what, where: young
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 (new work), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 done | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 work | acl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 folks | punct |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 folks | amod |
| 10 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 turned | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 turned | aux:pass |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 folks | acl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 young | case |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 turned | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | new work and old folks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive · passive | new work and old folks not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive · passive | new work and old folks not said here | young | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into young=Trajectory |
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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