Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 54
But Alyósha answered, “Hail, Marýshko Paránov, do you not sully the white stone palace; let him go into the open field wherever he may, and we will meet him to-morrow in the open field.”
Who acts: Alyósha, you, ALYÓSHA, we · What happens: answer, not sully, not let, go, meet · To what, where: Hail, white stone palace, ALYÓSHA, open field · 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, you, ALYÓSHA, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | Alyósha | Alyósha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hail | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hail | punct |
| 6 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Marýshko | punct |
| 8 | Marýshko | Marýshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hail | appos |
| 9 | Paránov | Paránov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Marýshko | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sully | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sully | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sully | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sully | advmod |
| 14 | sully | sully | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 palace | amod |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | compound |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sully | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sully | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 field | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 field | amod |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 27 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 may | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 may | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 meet | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 meet | cc |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 meet | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 meet | aux |
| 34 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 meet | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 morrow | case |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 to | punct |
| 38 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meet | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 field | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 field | det |
| 41 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 field | amod |
| 42 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meet | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sully | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sully | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Alyósha | Hail | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not sully in a quote | present · do-support | you | the white stone palace | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | ALYÓSHA = alyósha | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | ALYÓSHA = alyósha not said here | the open field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | meet in a quote | future | we | ALYÓSHA = alyósha | the open field | to morrow | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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