Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 65
The trade folk of the city met him on his way and asked him: “Man, why art thou naked?”
Who acts: trade folk · What happens: meet, ask · To what, where: Tsar, way, Man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trade folk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 folk | det |
| 2 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 folk | compound |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 folk | nmod |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Man | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Man | punct |
| 17 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 art | punct |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 art | advmod |
| 20 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 naked | nsubj |
| 22 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 art | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Man | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the trade folk of the city | Tsar | Tsar's way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the trade folk of the city not said here | Man | Tsar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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