Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 114
“Do not ask me, my brothers; just buckle my wallet firmly on, and do not think evil of me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not ask, buckle, not think · To what, where: comrades, wallet, evil
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brothers | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 me | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 buckle | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 buckle | advmod |
| 11 | buckle | buckle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buckle | obj |
| 14 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 15 on | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 buckle | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 think | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 think | advmod |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | conj |
| 21 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 think | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 evil | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | soldier's comrades = comrade | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | buckle in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | my wallet | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | evil of me | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=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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