Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 154
So the Ox said, “We will build an _izbá_,[42] and we shall not freeze during the winter.”
Who acts: Ox, We · What happens: say, build, not freeze · To what, where: izbá · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ox, We), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ox | det |
| 3 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 build | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 build | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 build | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 build | aux |
| 9 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 izbá | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 izbá | punct |
| 12 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 build | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 build | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 42 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 42 | punct |
| 16 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 build | obl |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 42 | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 freeze | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 freeze | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 freeze | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 freeze | advmod |
| 22 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 build | conj |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 winter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 winter | det |
| 25 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 freeze | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Ox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build in a quote | future | We | a izbá | 42 obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent izbá=Product | |||
| 3 | not freeze in a quote | shall | we | winter | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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