Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 95
“At least leave a silver spoon here; we can gaze on it and think of you.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: leave, gaze, think · To what, where: silver spoon, least
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 leave | obl |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spoon | det |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoon | compound |
| 7 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leave | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 gaze | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 gaze | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 gaze | aux |
| 12 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gaze | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 think | cc |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gaze | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 think | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a silver spoon | least; here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme at least=Location | |||
| 2 | gaze in a quote | can | we | on spoon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | 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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