Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 26, sentence 97
“There you are, Elijah,” said St. Nicholas: “you said I gave everything away to the peasant; now you see what the truth is.”
Who acts: you, Nicholas, truth · What happens: be, say, give away, see · To what, where: everything, peasant · 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 (you, Nicholas, truth), 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 | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 are | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 6 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Elijah | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Elijah | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 gave | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 gave | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 peasant | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 peasant | det |
| 22 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 see | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 truth | det |
| 29 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 what | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 what | cop |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Nicholas St. | Elijah nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give away in a quote | past | Nicholas St. = nicholas | everything | the peasant | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Theme to peasant=Recipient | ||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the truth | 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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