Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 118
Is it Egóri the Brave who has come to help us?”
Who acts: hero, Brave · What happens: be, come, help · To what, where: Egóri, us
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 (hero, Brave), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Egóri | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Egóri | nsubj |
| 3 | Egóri | Egóri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Brave | det |
| 5 | Brave | Brave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | advcl |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hero | Egóri | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | the Brave | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | the Brave not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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