Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 16, sentence 92
“Don’t you see it is I, young and stately; I don’t want to have an old husband.
Who acts: you, eyesight, rich woman · What happens: not do, see, be, not want, have · To what, where: old husband · 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 (you, eyesight, rich woman), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 young | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 young | cop |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 young | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 young | punct |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stately | cc |
| 12 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 10 young | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 want | advmod |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Do | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 want | xcomp |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 husband | amod |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | eyesight | I nsubj; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | the rich woman = woman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the rich woman = woman not said here | a old husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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