Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 19
“My friend, my dear gossip, give me a coin; I shall be of service to you.”
Who acts: friend, beetle, my · What happens: give, be, gossip · To what, where: coin, beetle, you
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 (friend, beetle, my), 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 | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gossip | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gossip | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gossip | amod |
| 7 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coin | det |
| 12 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 service | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 service | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 service | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 service | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 service | case |
| 18 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 service | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | My friend and my dear gossip | a coin | a beetle = beetle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient coin=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | a beetle = beetle | you | of service | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gossip in a quote | my | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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