Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 159
“Now, my brother,” said the wizard, “I am going to tear you to bits!
Who acts: brother · What happens: say, go, tear · To what, where: wizard, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (brother), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wizard | det |
| 10 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tear | mark |
| 17 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tear | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bits | case |
| 20 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tear | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | my brother | the wizard | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | my brother = brother | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tear in a quote | to-infinitive | my brother = brother not said here | you | to bits result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient to bit=Result |
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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