Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 145
To-morrow nobody will be able to wake them up: I only know one means of reviving them.”
Who acts: nobody, I, able · What happens: be, wake up, know, mean, revive · To what, where: bride, one
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 (nobody, I, able), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 able | obl |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 able | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 able | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | cop |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wake | mark |
| 9 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wake | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 wake | compound:prt |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 reviving | mark |
| 19 | reviving | revive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 means | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reviving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | nobody | to morrow; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake up | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | bride | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | able | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | revive | gerund | able not said here | bride | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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