Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 17
“O doughty youth, I do not know myself: I have never seen the free world, and I have never known my father and mother.”
Who acts: doughty youth, Hail · What happens: not know, not see · To what, where: Hail, free world, father
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 (doughty youth, Hail), 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 | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 youth | discourse |
| 3 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 youth | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 know | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 known | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 known | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 known | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 known | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 known | advmod |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 seen | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 known | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mother | cc |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 father | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | doughty youth | Hail and fair maiden = hail | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | Hail and fair maiden = hail | the free world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · perfect | Hail and fair maiden = hail | my father and mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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