Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 101
I’ve sat here thirty years: never a soul cut my hair, you guessed my need.”
Who acts: I, soul, you, my · What happens: sit, not cut, guess, need · To what, where: hair, need
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, soul, you, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | reparandum |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 cut | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 cut | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | nsubj |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 guessed | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 guessed | nsubj |
| 16 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cut | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 need | nmod:poss |
| 18 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 guessed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | I | here | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not cut | past | a soul | my hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | ||||
| 3 | guess | past | you | my need | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | my | nom need «state transitive»: 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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