Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 107
“No, brother, do not ask me: it is no good.
Who acts: you, flock · What happens: not ask, be · To what, where: walker
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, flock), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 No | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | advmod |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 good | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 good | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 good | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ask | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the walker = walker | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | flock | good 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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