Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 99
“How do you do?” said the walker, and he forgot that his friend had long ago taken the long road.
Who acts: you, walker, friend · What happens: do, say, forget, take · To what, where: long road · 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 (you, walker, friend), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walker | det |
| 10 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgot | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forgot | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forgot | nsubj |
| 14 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 taken | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 taken | aux |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ago | advmod |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 taken | advmod |
| 21 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 forgot | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taken | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the walker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forget | past | friend | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect | friend's friend | the long road | ago property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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