Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 3
Tell me what to do: I will be your faithful servant.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, do, be · To what, where: me, faithful servant · 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 (you, 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 servant | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 servant | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 servant | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 servant | cop |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servant | nmod:poss |
| 11 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 servant | amod |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | I | your faithful servant | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg62509/26/3/