Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 36
“Give us something to eat and drink.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, eat, drink · To what, where: something, us
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 (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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 something | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eat | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | something | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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