Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 8
“Never mind, master, I have three crusts of bread, and meat: give me a ladle of water.
Who acts: you, Hail · What happens: not mind, have, give · To what, where: master, three crusts, ladle, Hail
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, Hail), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | advcl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 crusts | nummod |
| 10 | crusts | crust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bread | case |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crusts | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 meat | cc |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ladle | det |
| 20 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ladle | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | master | meat obl | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Hail and master = hail | three crusts of bread | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a ladle of water | Hail and master = hail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ladle=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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