Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 152
Whilst I was coming here I met a gipsy on the way, and he asked me what he should do.”
Who acts: I, GIPSY · What happens: come, meet, ask, do · To what, where: gipsy, way, me · 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 (I, GIPSY), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 coming | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 met | advcl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 coming | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gipsy | det |
| 9 | gipsy | gipsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | I | a gipsy | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gipsy=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | GIPSY | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | should | GIPSY | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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