Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 109
“Hail, doughty youth, why do you want me so speedily?”
Who acts: Hail · What happens: want · To what, where: Donotknow
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 youth | punct |
| 4 | doughty | doughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 youth | amod |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hail | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 want | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 speedily | advmod |
| 13 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 10 want | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | Hail and doughty youth | Donotknow | you nsubj; speedily property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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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