Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 50
But still Iváshko asked his parents’ leave to go to the dragon, and after some reluctance he obtained it.
Who acts: Iváshko · What happens: ask, leave, go, obtain · To what, where: parents, reluctance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Iváshko), 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 | _ | 4 asked | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 3 | Iváshko | Iváshko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leave | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dragon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 obtained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 obtained | cc |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 reluctance | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 reluctance | det |
| 18 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obtained | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 obtained | nsubj |
| 20 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 obtained | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Iváshko | Iváshko's parents | still | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | to the dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dragon=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | obtain | past | Iváshko | reluctance | after some reluctance | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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