Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 65
This is my reward to the pope, and he’ll never forget it all his life.”
Who acts: This, blessing · What happens: be, not forget · To what, where: reward
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 (This, blessing), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reward | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reward | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 reward | nmod:poss |
| 4 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 reward | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forget | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forget | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 forget | advmod |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reward | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 life | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forget | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | my reward | to the pope; my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not forget | future | blessing | reward | blessing's life obl:unmarked | 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.
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