Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 85
“Brother, how much have you earned?” asked Iván.
What happens: earn, ask · To what, where: Iván · 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 earned | punct |
| 2 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 have | obj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 earned | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 8 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 earned | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 earned | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn in a quote | present · perfect | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Iván | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent iván=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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