Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 37
[44] When they reached the hut, the Bear said to the Wolf: “You go first.”
Who acts: Bear, hut, You · What happens: reach, say, go · To what, where: 44, Wolf · 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 (Bear, hut, 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 | _ | 2 44 | punct |
| 2 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 reached | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 44 | punct |
| 4 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bear | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bear | det |
| 11 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hut | conj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Wolf | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 18 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | parataxis |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Bear | 44 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hut and the Bear | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wolf=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | You | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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