Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 133
And when at last he saw Egóri on his way back, he asked him at once: “Did you hand in a report about me?”
Who acts: peasant, soldier · What happens: see, ask, hand · To what, where: Egóri, last, soldier, report · 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 (peasant, soldier), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | advcl |
| 7 | Egóri | Egóri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 way | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 asked | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 20 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hand | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nsubj |
| 22 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 report | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 report | det |
| 25 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | obl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 report | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | peasant | Egóri | last | on peasant's way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egóri=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | peasant | soldier | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hand in a quote | past · do-support | soldier | a report about me | vn send-11.1-1 «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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