Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 19, sentence 59
I have served for ten years, and my colonel never forgave me a single sleep: evidently they have not taught you anything.
Who acts: I, colonel · What happens: serve, not forgive, not teach · To what, where: me, SOLDIER, 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 (I, colonel), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 served | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 served | aux |
| 3 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 served | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forgave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forgave | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 colonel | nmod:poss |
| 10 | colonel | colonel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgave | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 forgave | advmod |
| 12 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 served | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 forgave | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sleep | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sleep | amod |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgave | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 taught | punct |
| 18 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 22 taught | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taught | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 taught | advmod |
| 22 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 served | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 taught | obj |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 taught | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present · perfect | I | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not forgive | past | my colonel | me | a single sleep obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | SOLDIER | you | anything obj; evidently property | 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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