Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 17, sentence 56
Tell her: ‘Please, dear Mother, scratch my head.’
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, scratch · To what, where: dear Mother, beaver, head · 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 (you), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 5 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 Tell | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mother | punct |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mother | amod |
| 8 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scratch | punct |
| 10 | scratch | scratch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scratch | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | dear Mother | beaver | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | scratch | infinitive | you not said here | my head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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