Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 29
“Well, it is dark now; we had better take shelter somewhere in the thickets, and to-morrow I will show you the way.”
Who acts: servant, we, general · What happens: be, have, show · To what, where: take shelter, way, you
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 (servant, we, general), 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 | _ | 6 dark | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 dark | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dark | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dark | cop |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dark | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dark | advcl |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 take | amod |
| 12 | take | take | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shelter | compound |
| 13 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 had | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 thickets | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thickets | det |
| 17 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 somewhere | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 show | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 show | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 morrow | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 show | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 show | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 show | aux |
| 25 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dark | parataxis |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 show | iobj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 show | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dark | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | servant | now | dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | we | take shelter | somewhere property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient | |||
| 3 | show in a quote | future | general | the way | you | to morrow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to morrow=Recipient |
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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