Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 17
“Sit down, brother mine; play on the harp whilst I go and prepare dinner.”
Who acts: you, time · What happens: sit down, play, go, prepare · To what, where: brother, harp, dinner
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, time), 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 | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 2 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 Sit | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sit | obl |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 play | punct |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sit | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 harp | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harp | det |
| 11 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | obl |
| 12 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 play | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prepare | cc |
| 16 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prepare | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | imperative | you not said here | brother mine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the harp | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | this time = time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | prepare in a quote | present | this time = time not said here | dinner | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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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