Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 63
“Formerly I came to you as a guest, but now I come to you as a suitor: give me your sister Ánna.”
Who acts: Iván · What happens: come, give · To what, where: you, sister, Iván
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 (Iván), 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 | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 guest | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 guest | det |
| 9 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 come | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 suitor | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 suitor | det |
| 19 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | Ánna | Ánna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sister | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Iván | you | as a guest; formerly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | Iván | you | now | as a suitor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | Iván not said here | your sister | Iván | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sister=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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