Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 84
I have eaten nothing, I have drunken nothing, and my throat is all dried up.”
Who acts: I · What happens: eat, have, dry up · To what, where: nothing, throat
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 eaten | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | parataxis |
| 8 | drunken | drunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nothing | amod |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dried | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 throat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dried | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dried | aux:pass |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 dried | advmod |
| 16 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 eaten | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 dried | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eaten | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · perfect | I | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dry up | present · passive | my throat | all property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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