Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 63
“That is an easy task: harder tasks are near at hand.
Who acts: That, harder tasks · What happens: be · To what, where: easy task, hand
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 (That, harder tasks), 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 | _ | 6 task | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 task | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 task | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 task | det |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 task | amod |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 8 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 tasks | amod |
| 9 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hand | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hand | cop |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 task | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 task | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a easy task and hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | harder tasks | hand | 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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