Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 32
“No,” said the Princess, “that is the man there”; and she pointed out the workman.
Who acts: Princess, that · What happens: say, be, point out · To what, where: man, workman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess, that), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Princess | appos |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 man | advmod |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 pointed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pointed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pointed | nsubj |
| 19 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 pointed | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 workman | det |
| 22 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pointed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | the man | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | point out | past | Princess | the workman | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=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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