Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 90
Now, listen to me: I am a king’s daughter; Koshchéy the Deathless fell in love with me, took me away from my father and from my mother, wished to marry me, but I always laughed at him.
Who acts: you, I, Koshchéy · What happens: listen, be, fall, take away, wish, marry · To what, where: me, daughter, love
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 (you, I, Koshchéy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 listen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 listen | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 daughter | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 daughter | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listen | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 14 | Koshchéy | Koshchéy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Deathless | det |
| 16 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Koshchéy | flat |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listen | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 love | case |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 took | iobj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 took | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mother | cc |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 father | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wished | punct |
| 34 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 father | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 marry | mark |
| 36 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 wished | xcomp |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 marry | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 laughed | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 laughed | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 laughed | nsubj |
| 41 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 42 laughed | advmod |
| 42 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 laughed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | me | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a king's daughter | a king nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Koshchéy | love | with me | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 4 | take away | past | Koshchéy not said here | me | from my father and my mother; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Theme from father=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | wish | participle | Koshchéy not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Koshchéy not said here | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 7 | laugh | past | I | at Koshchéy; always property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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