Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 118
Good-bye, brother Dog, I will go home to die.”
Who acts: Good brother Dog · What happens: go, die
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 (Good brother Dog), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Dog | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bye | punct |
| 3 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 1 Good | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dog | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dog | compound |
| 6 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dog | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | Good brother Dog | I nsubj; home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | Good brother Dog not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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