Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 119
Why should he not go and see his friend?
Who acts: husband · What happens: not go, not see · To what, where: friend
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 (husband), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | should | husband | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see | infinitive | husband not said here | husband's friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
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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