Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 24
When you get up to-morrow morning, stand at the gates and buy the first thing that meets you and give it to me.”
Who acts: you, first thing · What happens: get up, stand, buy, meet, give · To what, where: gates, first thing, you, thing, me
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 (you, first thing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 get | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | compound |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gates | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gates | det |
| 13 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stand | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buy | cc |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 buy | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 meets | nsubj |
| 20 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 meets | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 stand | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | present | you | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the gates | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location | ||||
| 3 | buy | infinitive | you not said here | the first thing | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | the first thing | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | you not said here | thing | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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