Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 8
Then the pike said to him in a human voice: “Let me go free, good man, go free.
Who acts: pike · What happens: say, let, go · To what, where: Mass, human voice, pike · 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 (pike), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pike | det |
| 3 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Let | punct |
| 13 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Let | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Let | xcomp |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 go | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Let | vocative |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Let | conj |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 go | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the pike | Mass | a human voice | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the pike = pike | good man vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | the pike = pike not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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