Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 102
“I am dying of starvation: I was able to have enough whilst you were feeding me.”
Who acts: mistress, you · What happens: die, be, have, feed · To what, where: enough, mistress
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dying | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dying | aux |
| 4 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 starvation | case |
| 6 | starvation | starvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dying | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dying | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 17 feeding | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 feeding | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feeding | aux |
| 17 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 have | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 feeding | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dying | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | present · progressive | mistress | of starvation | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | mistress | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | enough | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feed in a quote | past · progressive | you | mistress | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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