Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 56
Do I not know that your stepmother is wishing to destroy you?
Who acts: I, stepmother · What happens: not know, wish, destroy · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wishing | mark |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wishing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wishing | aux |
| 9 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 destroy | mark |
| 11 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wishing | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 destroy | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | wish | present · progressive | your stepmother | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | destroy 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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