Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 1
Then the Pig said, “I do not mind any frost whatsoever: I will burrow into the ground and do without any _izbá_.”
Who acts: Pig · What happens: say, not mind, burrow, do · To what, where: frost, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pig), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pig | det |
| 3 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mind | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mind | advmod |
| 10 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 frost | det |
| 12 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | obj |
| 13 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 10 mind | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 burrow | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 burrow | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 burrow | aux |
| 17 | burrow | burrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burrow | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 burrow | conj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 izbá | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 izbá | det |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 izbá | punct |
| 26 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 do | obl |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | discourse |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 burrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Pig | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | the Pig = pig | any frost | whatsoever property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frost=Theme | |||
| 3 | burrow in a quote | future | the Pig = pig | the ground | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | the Pig = pig not said here | without any izbá | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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