Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 27, sentence 97
Ask him how you shall reach Russian land once more.”
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, reach · To what, where: Iváshko, Russian land
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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 reach | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 reach | aux |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 land | amod |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reach | obj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 reach | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Iváshko | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reach not said to happen | shall | you | Russian land | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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