Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 88
“No, grandfather, I have not sown a single grain.”
What happens: not sow · To what, where: grandfather
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: 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 | _ | 9 sown | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 grandfather | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandfather | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sown | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sown | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sown | advmod |
| 9 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grain | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grain | amod |
| 12 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sown | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sown | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | grandfather | I nsubj; a single grain obj | tree rules |
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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