Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 34, sentence 99
“You ask for a great gift, brother; but I must do what you say, for my daughter is dearer to me than all else that I have here.
Who acts: You, I, daughter · What happens: ask, do, say, be, have · To what, where: me · 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 (You, I, daughter), 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 | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 gift | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gift | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gift | amod |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gift | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dearer | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 dearer | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dearer | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dearer | cop |
| 23 | dearer | dear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 do | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 dearer | obl |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 all | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 dearer | obl |
| 28 | else | else | ADV | _ | 27 all | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 have | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dearer | advcl |
| 32 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 have | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | You | for a great gift and brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | must | I | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | my daughter | me | than all; dear property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | I | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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