Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 8
“Do not grieve, _bátyushka_,” said the youngest daughter, “it is God’s gift: perhaps I shall fare well.
Who acts: youngest daughter, blossom · What happens: not grieve, say, be, fare · To what, where: bátyushka, gift · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youngest daughter, blossom), 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 grieve | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieve | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 grieve | advmod |
| 4 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bátyushka | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 bátyushka | punct |
| 7 | bátyushka | bátyushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 grieve | obj |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 bátyushka | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieve | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieve | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gift | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 gift | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gift | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gift | cop |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gift | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 God | case |
| 21 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 fare | punct |
| 23 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 26 fare | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fare | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 fare | aux |
| 26 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gift | conj |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 fare | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grieve in a quote | infinitive · do-support | bátyushka | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bátyushka=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | blossom | God's gift | God nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fare in a quote | shall | the youngest daughter = daughter | perhaps, well property | 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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