Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 38
Are ye mighty knights of prowess or wandering wayfarers bearing your burdens?
Who acts: ye, wayfarers, your · What happens: be, wonder, bear, burden · To what, where: mighty knights, wayfarers, burdens
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 (ye, wayfarers, your), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knights | cop |
| 2 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 knights | nsubj |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knights | amod |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prowess | case |
| 6 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knights | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 wandering | cc |
| 8 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 prowess | conj |
| 9 | wayfarers | wayfarer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wandering | obj |
| 10 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wayfarers | acl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 burdens | nmod:poss |
| 12 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bearing | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 knights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ye | mighty knights | of prowess | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | ye not said here | wayfarers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | wayfarers not said here | your burdens | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Patient | ||||
| 4 | burden | your | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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