Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 89
I am now a poor man, and do not know how to work, and I am ashamed to beg.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not know, work, beg · To what, where: poor man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 man | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 man | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 work | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ashamed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ashamed | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ashamed | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ashamed | cop |
| 19 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 beg | mark |
| 21 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ashamed | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a poor man | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not know | infinitive · do-support | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | I | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: 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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