Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 13
I am myself to blame; it is all my own fault; I did not look, and I must pay the cost.”
Who acts: I, earth · What happens: blame, be, not look, pay · To what, where: own fault, cost
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, earth), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | aux |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 blame | mark |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fault | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fault | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fault | cop |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 fault | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fault | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fault | amod |
| 12 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 look | advmod |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blame | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pay | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pay | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pay | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pay | aux |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 look | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cost | det |
| 24 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blame | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | present | I | myself nsubj | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | earth | my own fault | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not look | past · do-support | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pay | must | I | the cost | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Asset |
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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