Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 26
“Oh, I was out on a hunt and I lost my way in the wood; will you lead me to the right path, brother?”
Who acts: general, you · What happens: be out, lose, lead · To what, where: hunt, way, wood, general, right path
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 (general, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 was | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 was | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 hunt | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hunt | det |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lost | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 was | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lead | punct |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 lead | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 lead | nsubj |
| 21 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lost | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 lead | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 path | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 path | det |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 path | amod |
| 26 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lead | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 path | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 lead | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be out in a quote | past | general | a hunt | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hunt=Location | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | general | my way | the wood | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | lead in a quote | future | you | general | the right path and brother | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to path=Destination |
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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