Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 40
So Alyósha Popóvich answered, “I am the son of the old prebendary León, his young son Alyósha Popóvich, and my comrade and servant is Marýshko, the son of Parán.”
Who acts: Alyósha, comrade · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: son, Marýshko · 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 (Alyósha, comrade), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | flat |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 son | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 son | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prebendary | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prebendary | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prebendary | amod |
| 14 | prebendary | prebendary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 15 | León | León | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 prebendary | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prebendary | conj |
| 20 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | appos |
| 21 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Alyósha | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Marýshko | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Marýshko | cc |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 25 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Marýshko | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 servant | cc |
| 27 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 comrade | conj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Marýshko | cop |
| 29 | Marýshko | Marýshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 son | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 son | det |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Marýshko | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Parán | case |
| 34 | Parán | Parán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 son | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Marýshko | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Marýshko | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Alyósha | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Alyósha | the son | of the old prebendary and ALYÓSHA's young son | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my comrade and servant | Marýshko | the son of Parán appos | 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.
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