Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 47
“Listen to me, and do what I say: there is nothing to fear.”
Who acts: you, master, nothing · What happens: listen, do, say, be, fear · To what, where: master · 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 (you, master, nothing), 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Listen | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 say | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | acl:relcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Listen | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 is | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fear | mark |
| 16 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nothing | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the master = master | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the master = master | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fear in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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