Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 137

As you know, merchants who wear boots and furs come to see you, whilst I have only bast shoes, and I only have my grey coat.”

Who acts: you, merchants, I · What happens: know, wear, come, see, have · To what, where: boots, you, bast shoes, grey coat

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 (you, merchants, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wear	nsubj
7	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 merchants	acl:relcl
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wear	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 furs	cc
10	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 boots	conj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	conj
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 shoes	advmod
20	bast	bast	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shoes	compound
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 have	advmod
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	conj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 coat	nmod:poss
28	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coat	amod
29	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wear	present	merchants	boots and furs	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
3	come	present	merchants		tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	merchants not said here	you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	have	present	I	bast shoes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
6	have	present	I	my grey coat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=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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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 137