Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 108
“I will sit down here, and to-morrow I may see what I shall do, for the morning is wiser than the evening.”
Who acts: Naúm, morning · What happens: sit down, see, do, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naúm, morning), 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 | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sit | compound:prt |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wiser | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 wiser | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 morning | det |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wiser | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 wiser | cop |
| 24 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 see | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wiser | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | future | Naúm | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | may | Naúm | to morrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | Naúm | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the morning | evening | wise property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/20/108/