Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 23
“I can revive the bridal couple: what will you give me?”
Who acts: bride, you · What happens: revive, give · To what, where: bridal couple, bride
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 (bride, you), 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 | _ | 4 revive | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 revive | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 revive | aux |
| 4 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 6 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 couple | amod |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revive | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 give | obj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 revive | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 revive | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 revive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive in a quote | can | bride | the bridal couple | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent couple=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | you | bride | what obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme |
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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