Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 74
“Oh, there was not any cleverness about it,” the poor man answered.
Who acts: cleverness · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: cleverness · 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 (cleverness), 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 | _ | 8 cleverness | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 was | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cleverness | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 cleverness | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 cleverness | det |
| 8 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cleverness | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cleverness | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cleverness | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | past | any cleverness | about cleverness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | any cleverness | the poor man nsubj | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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