Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 166
“Perhaps the last may take you.”
What happens: take · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 36. 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 | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 last | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Perhaps | conj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | may | you | perhaps property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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