Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 43
“Very well!” said Nikíta, “only we must delimit frontiers.”
Who acts: Nikíta, we · What happens: say, delimit · To what, where: frontiers · 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 (Nikíta, we), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Nikíta | Nikíta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 delimit | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 delimit | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 delimit | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 delimit | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 delimit | aux |
| 13 | delimit | delimit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | frontiers | frontier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 delimit | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 delimit | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 delimit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Nikíta | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | delimit in a quote | must | we | frontiers | tree rules |
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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