Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 15
“Who will now give me food and drink?”
What happens: give · To what, where: food, Peasant
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: 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drink | cc |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | food and drink | the Peasant = peasant | now | Who nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient food=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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