Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 33
“How can you do it now, for this is the eve of the festival?”
Who acts: you, this · What happens: do, be · To what, where: festival
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, this), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 do | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eve | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 eve | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 eve | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eve | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eve | det |
| 13 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 festival | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 festival | det |
| 16 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eve | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | you | festival | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this | for the eve; of the festival | tree rules |
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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