Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 166
This is the first time I have seen you, and I have not even had a stirrup.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, see, have, not have · To what, where: first time, you, stirrup
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 (This, I), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | parataxis |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 had | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stirrup | det |
| 18 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not have | past | I not said here | a stirrup | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stirrup=Patient |
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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