Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 58
“Now you must make me a church out of white wax, to be ready to-night, and this shall be your last task.”
Who acts: you, this · What happens: make, be · To what, where: church, Sea Tsar, white wax, last task
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, this), 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 make | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 church | det |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 wax | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wax | case |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wax | amod |
| 12 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ready | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | cop |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ready | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 task | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 task | cc |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 task | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 task | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 task | cop |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 task | nmod:poss |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 task | amod |
| 27 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | must | you | a church | the Sea Tsar = tsar | white wax | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary church=Product | |
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | night | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | this | your last task | your nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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