Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 156
“Oh, you fool, the others sing, for they have had a good dinner and have drunk well.
Who acts: you, others · What happens: fool, sing, have, drink · To what, where: good dinner
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, others), 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 | _ | 5 fool | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 fool | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fool | nsubj |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fool | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sing | nsubj |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | aux |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sing | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dinner | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dinner | amod |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drunk | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 drunk | aux |
| 20 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 had | conj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 drunk | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | the others | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present · perfect | others = other | a good dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | present · perfect | others = other not said here | well property | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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