Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 46
“We shall not do any good—we shall only sully the water.”
Who acts: We · What happens: not do, sully · To what, where: any, water
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 any | amod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 sully | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sully | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sully | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 sully | advmod |
| 12 | sully | sully | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sully | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | shall | We | any | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sully in a quote | shall | we | the water | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Destination |
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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