Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 77
Ask your father that you may go out on my back for the last time to fare in the open fields with your companions.”
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, go out, fare · To what, where: father, back, open fields · 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 (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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fare | mark |
| 17 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fields | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fields | det |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fields | amod |
| 21 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fare | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 companions | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fare | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | your father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out | may | you | my back | time | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | fare | to-infinitive | you not said here | the open fields | with your companions | tree rules |
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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