Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 136
“Oh, brother, how can I?
To what, where: brother
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: 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 brother | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 can | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 can | advmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 brother | acl:relcl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 can | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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