Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 118
“Never mind about him; he will only disgrace us and make people smile: let us go by ourselves.”
Who acts: you, brother, people, us · What happens: not mind, disgrace, make, smile, let, go · To what, where: us, people
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 (you, brother, people, us), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 disgrace | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 disgrace | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 disgrace | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 disgrace | advmod |
| 10 | disgrace | disgrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 disgrace | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 disgrace | conj |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 ourselves | case |
| 21 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | about brother | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | disgrace in a quote | future | brother | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | brother not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | smile in a quote | infinitive | people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | by ourselves | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ourselves=Location |
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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