Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 108
But take meat with you and give him to eat whenever he turns round.”
Who acts: you, Bába · What happens: take, give, eat, turn round · To what, where: meat, Bába
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Bába), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 take | cc |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 take | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 take | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eat | mark |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | advcl |
| 11 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 13 turns | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turns | nsubj |
| 13 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | advcl |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 turns | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | meat | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | Bába | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | turn round | present | Bába | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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