Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 134
I might have gone to the rich man and asked him for a loan; but he would not trust me.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: go, ask, not trust · To what, where: man, me
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 (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 loan | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 loan | det |
| 14 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 trust | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 trust | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 trust | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 trust | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 trust | advmod |
| 20 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gone | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 trust | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | might · perfect | I | to the rich man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | I not said here | man | for a loan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not trust | would | man | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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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