Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 52
Then Alyósha Popóvich said from the brick stove, “O Marýshko, son of Parán, thou hast been a faithful servant!”
Who acts: Alyósha, thou · What happens: say, be · To what, where: brick stove, faithful servant · 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, thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alyósha | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stove | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stove | det |
| 7 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stove | compound |
| 8 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Marýshko | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Marýshko | punct |
| 11 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 12 Marýshko | discourse |
| 12 | Marýshko | Marýshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Marýshko | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Parán | case |
| 16 | Parán | Parán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 servant | punct |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 servant | nsubj |
| 19 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 servant | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 servant | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 servant | det |
| 22 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 servant | amod |
| 23 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Marýshko | appos |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 servant | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Alyósha | the brick stove | then | Marýshko parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | thou | a faithful servant | 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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