Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
“Do revive them, kinsman: half of our goods we will give you,” said the relations.
Who acts: we, relations · What happens: revive, give, say · To what, where: youths, half, 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 (we, relations), 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 | _ | 3 revive | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 revive | aux |
| 3 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 revive | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kinsman | punct |
| 6 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 revive | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 half | punct |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 kinsman | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goods | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 goods | nmod:poss |
| 11 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 half | nmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 half | acl:relcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 revive | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 revive | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 relations | det |
| 20 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive in a quote | infinitive · do-support | youths = youth | kinsman obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | we | half of our goods not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the relations | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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