Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 131
He was amazed and said: “I am the King, and have nothing as good!”
Who acts: King · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: King, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 amazed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amazed | cop |
| 3 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 amazed | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 King | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 King | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 amazed | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 good | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 amazed | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | King | the King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | King not said here | nothing | as good | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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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