Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 130
“Will you, then, send in a report about me to the Lord?” the peasant said, “what He wishes me to engage in?”
Who acts: you, peasant · What happens: send, say, wish, engage in · To what, where: report, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, peasant), 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 | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 send | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 send | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 report | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 report | det |
| 10 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 report | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Lord | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lord | det |
| 15 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 peasant | det |
| 19 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wishes | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 wishes | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 wishes | obj |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wishes | nsubj |
| 25 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 wishes | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 engage | mark |
| 28 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wishes | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 engage | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | future | you | a report about me | then | to the Lord | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in report=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | peasant | the peasant = peasant | what obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | engage in in a quote | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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