Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 35, sentence 9
I will take a taste of the loaf and a sup of the water, and we shall be satisfied.”
Who acts: I, we · What happens: take, be, taste · To what, where: taste, loaf
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 (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 taste | det |
| 5 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 loaf | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 loaf | det |
| 8 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taste | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sup | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sup | det |
| 11 | sup | sup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loaf | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sup | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 satisfied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 satisfied | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 satisfied | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 satisfied | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 satisfied | cop |
| 20 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 take | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | a taste of the loaf and a sup of the water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | we | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | taste | the loaf and a sup of the water | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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