Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 102
Now, old man, tell me a story.”
Who acts: old man · What happens: tell · To what, where: story, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | old man | a story | me | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic |
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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