Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 109
“I will give him this table-cloth.”
Who acts: Woodsprite · What happens: give · To what, where: table cloth, Iván
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodsprite), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cloth | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloth | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 table | punct |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | Woodsprite | this table cloth | Iván | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cloth=Theme |
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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