Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 138
“Let us go, brother, let us have a walk: there is a wedding now going on in the village.”
Who acts: you, us, wedding · What happens: let, go, have, be, go on · To what, where: us, brother, walk, village
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, us, wedding), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 walk | det |
| 12 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wedding | det |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 going | advmod |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 wedding | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 going | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 village | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 village | det |
| 23 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 going | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a walk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | a wedding | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go on in a quote | gerund | a wedding not said here | the village | now | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
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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