Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 22, sentence 79
“Yet now, tell me which is the worst of these evils?”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: me · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tell | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 worst | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 worst | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 worst | det |
| 10 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 evils | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 evils | det |
| 13 | evils | evil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 worst | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | me | now; yet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | of this evils; which nsubj; bad 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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