Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 38
Up the peasant dashed to the pope: “Oh, _bátyushka_, won’t you buy all my standing corn?
Who acts: you · What happens: dash, buy · To what, where: pope, standing corn
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), 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 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 3 peasant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dashed | obl |
| 4 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pope | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pope | det |
| 7 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dashed | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 buy | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 buy | punct |
| 10 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 wo | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 13 | bátyushka | bátyushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 Oh | vocative |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oh | punct |
| 16 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 buy | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wo | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 buy | nsubj |
| 19 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dashed | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 corn | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 corn | nmod:poss |
| 22 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 corn | compound |
| 23 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buy | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | the pope | up the peasant | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pope=Destination | ||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | future | you | my standing corn | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme |
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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