Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 24, sentence 30
I was there for three days as a herd, and she would not let me have the mare; but she gave me one of the foals.”
Who acts: I, sleep, me · What happens: be, not let, have, give · To what, where: me, mare, one
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 (I, sleep, me), 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 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 there | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 herd | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 herd | det |
| 9 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 days | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 let | advmod |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 there | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mare | det |
| 19 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 foals | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 foals | det |
| 28 | foals | foal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | day | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not let | would | sleep | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | me not said here | the mare | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | sleep | one of the foals | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=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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