Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 48
“Well, this is what the poor have to endure.
Who acts: this, poor · What happens: be, have, endure
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 (this, poor), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 what | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poor | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 endure | mark |
| 11 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the poor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | endure in a quote | to-infinitive | the poor not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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