Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 104
“What a wretched dolt was this servant of the Tsar’s: he has given a hint to everybody that I have plenty of money on me!”
Who acts: wretched dolt, everybody, sentry · What happens: be, give, have · To what, where: servant, sentry, money
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretched dolt, everybody, sentry), 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 | _ | 8 servant | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 dolt | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dolt | det |
| 4 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dolt | amod |
| 5 | dolt | dolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 servant | cop |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Tsar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tsar | det |
| 11 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | nmod |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Tsar | case |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 servant | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hint | det |
| 18 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 everybody | case |
| 20 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 given | obl:agent |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 have | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 everybody | acl:relcl |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 money | case |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plenty | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 given | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | what wretched dolt | this servant | of the Tsar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | everybody | sentry | on sentry; a hint obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient hint=Theme on i=Asset | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | sentry | money | tree rules |
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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