Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 85
“It is yet early: we have not yet had our sleep; come later on,” one pool answered.
Who acts: embassy, we, one pool, our · What happens: be, not have, come on, answer, sleep · To what, where: sleep · 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 (embassy, we, one pool, our), 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 | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 early | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 early | cop |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 early | advmod |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 come | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 had | advmod |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 early | parataxis |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 come | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pool | nummod |
| 21 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 answered | nsubj |
| 22 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | embassy | yet | early property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not have in a quote | present · perfect | we | our sleep | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | |||
| 3 | come on in a quote | infinitive | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | one pool | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | our | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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