Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 51
“That won’t do,” said Elijah; “I will grow the meadow anew—’twill be as good as it was.”
Who acts: That, Elijah, twill · What happens: not do, say, grow, be · To what, where: meadow · 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 (That, Elijah, twill), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grow | aux |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meadow | det |
| 16 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grow | obj |
| 17 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grow | xcomp |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 twill | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 twill | nmod:poss |
| 20 | twill | twill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 good | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 good | cop |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 good | advmod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | That | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Elijah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | future | Elijah | the meadow | anew property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meadow=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | ’'s twill | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | twill | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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