Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 69
Sit down and tell me whence you come and what you seek.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sit down, tell, come, seek · To what, where: me · 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 (you), 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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Sit | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 come | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 come | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 seek | nsubj |
| 12 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | you | what conj; whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | present | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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