Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 100
The old man said to the peasant: “Go home and wait until the summer; you will have bread enough.”
Who acts: old man, peasant · What happens: say, go, wait, have · To what, where: peasant, bread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 35. 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, peasant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 peasant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Go | punct |
| 10 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 Go | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wait | cc |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 Go | conj |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 summer | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 summer | det |
| 16 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wait | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | aux |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 21 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 have | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to peasant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | infinitive | summer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | the peasant = peasant | bread | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
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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