Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 90
“Now, doctor, we are going to take you up to the authorities: if you can revive them it must be you who killed them!”
Who acts: we, you · What happens: go, take up, revive, be, kill · To what, where: you, authorities
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, you), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 going | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doctor | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 authorities | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 authorities | det |
| 15 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 revive | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 revive | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 revive | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 revive | aux |
| 20 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 revive | obj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 revive | obj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 you | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 you | cop |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 killed | nsubj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 killed | nsubj |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | parataxis |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 killed | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | we | now | doctor vocative | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take up in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | the authorities | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to authority=Destination | |||
| 3 | revive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | authorities = authority | doctor obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | past | you | authorities = authority | who nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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