Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 76
The foal saw him and said, “My beloved master, I have saved you from three deaths—do you now save me from one.
Who acts: foal, son, you · What happens: see, say, save · To what, where: son, you, three deaths · 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 (foal, son, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foal | det |
| 2 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 master | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 master | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 master | amod |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saved | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saved | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saved | aux |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 saved | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 deaths | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 deaths | nummod |
| 19 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saved | obl |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 save | punct |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 save | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 save | nsubj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 save | advmod |
| 24 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 save | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 save | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the foal | son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the foal not said here | My beloved master ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | save in a quote | present · perfect | the merchant's son = son | you | three deaths | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 4 | save in a quote | present · do-support | you | the merchant's son = son | now | from one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from one=Source |
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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