Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 29, sentence 63
You may recollect how I was sitting on the oak and you wished to kill me.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: recollect, sit, wish, kill · To what, where: oak, me
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 recollect | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 recollect | aux |
| 3 | recollect | recollect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 recollect | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 oak | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oak | det |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wished | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | nsubj |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wished | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recollect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recollect | may | You | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | I | the oak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on oak=Location | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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