Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 18, sentence 103
“Wait a bit; I had better tell you one in the morning.”
Who acts: you, old man · What happens: wait, have, tell · To what, where: bit, one, you · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Wait | advcl |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | xcomp |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 tell | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | old man = man | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | old man = man not said here | one | you | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=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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