Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 100
We still say that we are clever, but our elders go and quarrel with us and say, “No, we had more sense than you.”
Who acts: We, elders · What happens: say, be, go, quarrel, have · To what, where: more sense · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, elders), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 clever | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 clever | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clever | cop |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 elders | nmod:poss |
| 11 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 quarrel | cc |
| 14 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 quarrel | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 say | cc |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 21 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 had | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 No | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | ccomp |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 sense | amod |
| 26 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | We | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | we | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | present | our elders | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | quarrel | present | our elders not said here | with us | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | our elders not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | we | more sense | than you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
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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