Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 100
A _boyár_ rode up to the potter and said to him: “God be with you, potter.”
Who acts: _ boyár, God · What happens: ride up, say, be · To what, where: potter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ boyár, God), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boyár | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boyár | amod |
| 3 | boyár | boyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rode | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 potter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 potter | det |
| 9 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 you | nsubj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 you | cop |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 said | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 potter | punct |
| 21 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | a _ boyár | the potter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to potter=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a _ boyár not said here | potter | POTTER | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | God | with POTTER | 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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