Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 130
“Oh,” he said, “I will tear off and bring this to my beloved daughter: evidently there is nobody here to watch me.”
Who acts: merchant, nobody · What happens: say, tear off, bring, be, watch · To what, where: this, beloved daughter, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, nobody), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tear | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tear | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tear | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tear | aux |
| 11 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 tear | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tear | conj |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 21 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 23 is | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 24 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 is | nsubj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 is | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 watch | mark |
| 27 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 is | advcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 watch | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tear off in a quote | future | merchant | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | infinitive | merchant not said here | this | my beloved daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme to daughter=Destination | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | nobody | here; there | evidently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | watch in a quote | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | merchant | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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