Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 116
You have only to take this herb”—pointing to a herb on the shore—“cook it, boil her in the brew, and she will be healed.”
Who acts: You · What happens: take, point, cook, boil, heal · To what, where: herb, shore, person
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 herb | det |
| 7 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pointing | punct |
| 10 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 take | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herb | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 herb | det |
| 13 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pointing | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pointing | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 cook | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 cook | punct |
| 19 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cook | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boil | punct |
| 22 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cook | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 boil | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 brew | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brew | det |
| 26 | brew | brew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boil | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 healed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 healed | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 healed | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 healed | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 healed | aux:pass |
| 32 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cook | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | You | this herb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | point in a quote | gerund | You not said here | a herb | the shore | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herb=Recipient | |||
| 3 | cook | infinitive | You not said here | herb | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | boil | infinitive | You not said here | person | in the brew | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient in brew=Instrument | |||
| 5 | heal | future · passive | person | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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