Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 17
“Well, be of good cheer,” said the old man; “go to the rich peasant and ask whatever you require of him as a debt.”
Who acts: good cheer, you · What happens: be, say, go, ask, require · To what, where: whatever · 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 (good cheer, you), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 cheer | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cheer | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cheer | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheer | amod |
| 7 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheer | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheer | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 peasant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 peasant | amod |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ask | cc |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | conj |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 ask | obj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 require | nsubj |
| 25 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 require | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 debt | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 debt | det |
| 30 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ask | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | of good cheer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | good cheer | the old man nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | to the rich peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | whatever | as a debt | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | require in a quote | present | you | of man | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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