Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 57
Let’s share the cost of it; I will take back my field, and to relieve your loss will return you half the money.”
Who acts: you, ’s, I, loss · What happens: let, share, take back, relieve, return, cost · To what, where: ’s, cost, field, you
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, ’s, I, loss), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cost | det |
| 5 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 share | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cost | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 field | nmod:poss |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 relieve | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 relieve | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 relieve | mark |
| 18 | relieve | relieve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 loss | nmod:poss |
| 20 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 return | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 relieve | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 return | obj |
| 24 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 26 money | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 money | det |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 return | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | ’s | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | ’s not said here | the cost of cost | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take back | future | I | my field | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 4 | relieve | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | return | future | your loss | you | half money obj | vn reciprocate-112 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme money=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | cost | cost | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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