Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 50
Then he said: “Now, my well-doer, Ivánushka, you are to be a mighty king; Iván, the merchant’s son, you are now rich and famous and happy, so see to it that you do not forget God and the poor.
Who acts: tale, you, doer · What happens: say, be, see, not forget · To what, where: mighty king, doer, God · 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 (tale, you, doer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doer | punct |
| 6 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 doer | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doer | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 doer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 doer | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 well | punct |
| 11 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rich | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ivánushka | punct |
| 13 | Ivánushka | Ivánushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 doer | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 king | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 king | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 king | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 king | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 king | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 20 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 king | amod |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doer | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 Iván | punct |
| 23 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 doer | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 merchant | det |
| 26 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 merchant | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doer | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rich | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 rich | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 rich | cop |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 rich | advmod |
| 33 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 famous | cc |
| 35 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rich | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 happy | cc |
| 37 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 rich | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 see | advmod |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 see | obl |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 forget | mark |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 forget | nsubj |
| 45 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 forget | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 forget | advmod |
| 47 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 see | advcl |
| 48 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 forget | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 poor | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 poor | det |
| 51 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 God | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | tale | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | a mighty king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my doer and a mighty king and the merchant's son | now | you nsubj; rich property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | my doer and a mighty king and the merchant's son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | my doer and a mighty king and the merchant's son not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | tale not said here | doer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | not forget in a quote | present · do-support | you | God | 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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