Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 3
“Hey, _bábushka_, give me food and drink, and ask me afterwards.”
Who acts: you · What happens: give, ask · To what, where: food, Bába
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 (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 | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 2 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hey | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 bábushka | punct |
| 5 | bábushka | bábushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Hey | vocative |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 bábushka | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hey | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drink | cc |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 food | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | iobj |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 15 ask | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | food and drink | Bába | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Bába | afterwards property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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