Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 75
But Marýshko Paránov gave him answer: “Do not be distressed, oh bright little sun, Vladímir, in thy capital of Kíev.
Who acts: Marýshko · What happens: give, answer, not distress · To what, where: ALYÓSHA, bright little sun, capital · 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), 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 | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | Marýshko | Marýshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | Paránov | Paránov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marýshko | flat |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | xcomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 distressed | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 distressed | punct |
| 9 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 distressed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 distressed | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 distressed | aux:pass |
| 12 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sun | punct |
| 14 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 sun | discourse |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sun | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sun | amod |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distressed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Vladímir | punct |
| 19 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sun | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 capital | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 capital | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 capital | nmod:poss |
| 23 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distressed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Kíev | case |
| 25 | Kíev | Kíev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 capital | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Marýshko | ALYÓSHA = alyósha | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | Marýshko not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not distress in a quote | infinitive · passive · do-support | Marýshko not said here | bright little sun and Vladímir | thy capital of Kíev | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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