Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 111
“I will give you a sword, and you give me the keg: what is the use of the keg to you?
Who acts: old man, you, keg · What happens: give, be · To what, where: sword, you, keg, old man, use
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, you, keg), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 keg | det |
| 14 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 use | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 use | det |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keg | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 keg | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 keg | det |
| 22 | keg | keg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 use | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 keg | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | the old man to the Cossack = man | a sword | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | present | you | the keg | the old man to the Cossack = man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient keg=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the keg | the use | of the keg to you | 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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