Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 51
Now, master, we will go into the _izbá_[53] and lie down to sleep, for the morning is wiser than the evening, and to-morrow you will have such good beer for dinner that one glass will make you drunk.”
Who acts: we, morning, you, one glass · What happens: go, lie down, sleep, be, have, make · To what, where: 53, izbá, such good beer, you
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, morning, you, one glass), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 izbá | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 izbá | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 izbá | punct |
| 11 | izbá | izbá | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 53 | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 53 | punct |
| 14 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 go | obl |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 53 | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lie | cc |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lie | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lie | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wiser | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 wiser | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wiser | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 wiser | cop |
| 26 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 lie | parataxis |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 evening | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 evening | det |
| 29 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wiser | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 have | cc |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 morrow | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 have | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 38 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beer | amod |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beer | amod |
| 40 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 dinner | case |
| 42 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 beer | nmod |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 make | mark |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 glass | nummod |
| 45 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 make | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 make | aux |
| 47 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 have | advcl |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 make | obj |
| 49 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 make | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | we | 53 | the izbá | now | master advcl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into izbá=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | lie down | infinitive | we not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the morning | evening | wise property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | future | you | such good beer | to morrow; for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient | |||
| 6 | make | future | one glass | you | drunk property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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