Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 46
I hear a very great misfortune—that your stepmother wishes to ruin you.
Who acts: I, stepmother · What happens: hear, wish, ruin · To what, where: great misfortune, you
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 (I, stepmother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 misfortune | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 great | advmod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 misfortune | amod |
| 6 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hear | obj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wishes | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 wishes | mark |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wishes | nsubj |
| 11 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hear | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 ruin | mark |
| 13 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wishes | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ruin | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | a great misfortune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | your stepmother | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ruin not said to happen | to-infinitive | your stepmother not said here | you | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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