Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 39
I’ll sell you my whole field; I am so short of money; take it and give it me.
Who acts: I · What happens: sell, be, take, give · To what, where: whole field, you, corn, me
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 (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 | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | aux |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | iobj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 field | nmod:poss |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 field | amod |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sell | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 short | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 short | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 short | advmod |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sell | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 short | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | obj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | future | I | my whole field | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient field=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | of money; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | corn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | corn | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=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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