Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 131
“Now, you fine potter, you have known how to sell your goods; _boyár_, take off your gay costume and your boots; and you, potter, take off your _kaftán_ and your bast shoes.
Who acts: you, boyár · What happens: potter, know, sell, take off · To what, where: fine potter, goods, gay costume, kaftán
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 (you, boyár), 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 | _ | 10 known | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 potter | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 potter | nsubj |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 potter | amod |
| 6 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 potter | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 sell | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sell | mark |
| 13 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 known | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 goods | nmod:poss |
| 15 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 sell | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 boyár | punct |
| 18 | boyár | boyár | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | nsubj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 boyár | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 known | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 take | compound:prt |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 costume | nmod:poss |
| 24 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 costume | amod |
| 25 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 boots | cc |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 boots | nmod:poss |
| 28 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 costume | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 you | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 potter | punct |
| 33 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 you | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 potter | punct |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 known | conj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 take | compound:prt |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 kaftán | nmod:poss |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 kaftán | punct |
| 39 | kaftán | kaftán | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 shoes | cc |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 43 | bast | bast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 shoes | compound |
| 44 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 take | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | potter in a quote | you | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · perfect · passive | fine potter | you nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sell in a quote | to-infinitive | your goods | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take off in a quote | infinitive | boyár | your gay costume and your boots | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent costume=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take off in a quote | infinitive | you | your kaftán | your bast shoes conj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kaftán=Theme |
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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