Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 20, sentence 91
We will ask the first man we meet which of us is right.
Who acts: We · What happens: ask, meet, be · To what, where: first man
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 right | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 which | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meet | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | We | the first man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | we | the first man not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | which of us nsubj; right property | 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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