Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 67
“I am going, _bábushka_,[49] to seek a bride, but I do not know where I am to find her.”
Who acts: old woman · What happens: go, seek, not know, be, find · To what, where: bride · 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 (old woman), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 7 | bábushka | bábushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 going | xcomp |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 49 | punct |
| 11 | 49 | 49 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 going | parataxis |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 49 | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bride | det |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | conj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 find | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 where | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 where | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 find | mark |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 know | ccomp |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 find | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | a old woman = woman | 49 parataxis | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | a old woman = woman not said here | a bride | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | a old woman = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | a old woman = woman | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | bride | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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