Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 93
“Oh, I am going to light the rouble taper to the Prophet Elijah; he has been so charitable to me.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: go, light, be · To what, where: rouble taper, Nicholas
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 (Nicholas), 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 | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 going | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 light | mark |
| 8 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 taper | det |
| 10 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taper | compound |
| 11 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Elijah | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Elijah | det |
| 14 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Elijah | compound |
| 15 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taper | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 charitable | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 charitable | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 charitable | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 charitable | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 charitable | advmod |
| 21 | charitable | charitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 going | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 charitable | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Nicholas St. = nicholas | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | light in a quote | to-infinitive | Nicholas St. = nicholas not said here | the rouble taper | to the Prophet Elijah | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Product | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | NICHOLAS | Nicholas St. = nicholas | charitable property | 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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