Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 34
“Never mind, Gossip,” the poor man replied; “if you will be so good, I and my wife will still brew something together, and can drink together and celebrate the festival.”
Who acts: poor man, you · What happens: not mind, reply, be, brew, drink, celebrate · To what, where: Gossip, something, festival · 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 (poor man, 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gossip | punct |
| 5 | Gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 brew | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 brew | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 good | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 good | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 good | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 good | advmod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brew | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 brew | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wife | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 I | conj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 brew | aux |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 brew | advmod |
| 27 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 brew | obj |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 brew | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 drink | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drink | cc |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 drink | aux |
| 33 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 brew | conj |
| 34 | together | together | ADV | _ | 33 drink | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 celebrate | cc |
| 36 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 drink | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 festival | det |
| 38 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 celebrate | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | Gossip | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gossip=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the poor man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | brew in a quote | future | the poor man = man | something | still | together property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Product | ||
| 5 | drink in a quote | can | the poor man = man not said here | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | celebrate in a quote | present | the poor man = man not said here | the festival | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=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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