Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 101
Leave us your silver fork; we will look at it and think of you.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: leave, look, think · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fork | nmod:poss |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fork | compound |
| 5 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leave | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 think | cc |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | us | your silver fork obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme fork=Attribute | |||
| 2 | look | future | we | at fork | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | we not said here | of you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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