Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 53
And Marýshko the son of Parán answered, “Do you give me, Alyósha Popóvich, your steel knife, and I will break open the white breast of Túgarin Zmyéyevich, I will close his clear eyes, and I will gaze on his mettlesome heart.”
Who acts: Marýshko, you · What happens: answer, give, break, open, close, gaze · To what, where: Alyósha, Marýshko, white breast, clear eyes · 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 (Marýshko, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 answered | cc |
| 2 | Marýshko | Marýshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Marýshko | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Parán | case |
| 6 | Parán | Parán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Alyósha | punct |
| 15 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | Popóvich | Popóvich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Alyósha | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knife | punct |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 knife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knife | compound |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 break | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 break | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 break | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 break | aux |
| 25 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 26 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 break | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 breast | det |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 breast | amod |
| 29 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 open | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Túgarin | case |
| 31 | Túgarin | Túgarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 breast | nmod |
| 32 | Zmyéyevich | Zmyéyevich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Túgarin | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 close | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 close | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 close | aux |
| 36 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 break | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 eyes | amod |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 close | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gaze | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 gaze | cc |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 gaze | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 gaze | aux |
| 44 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 heart | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 heart | nmod:poss |
| 47 | mettlesome | mettlesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 heart | amod |
| 48 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gaze | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 gaze | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 gaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Marýshko | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · do-support | you | Alyósha | Marýshko | your steel knife obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient alyósha=Theme | ||
| 3 | break in a quote | future | Marýshko | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open in a quote | infinitive | Marýshko not said here | the white breast of Túgarin | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=Theme | ||||
| 5 | close in a quote | future | Marýshko | ALYÓSHA's clear eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | gaze in a quote | future | Marýshko | on ALYÓSHA's mettlesome heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on heart=Theme |
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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