Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 26
Go to your neighbour and borrow a pair of oxen and a carriage.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, borrow · To what, where: neighbour, pair
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: who acts (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 neighbour | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 4 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 borrow | cc |
| 6 | borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 borrow | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 oxen | case |
| 10 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carriage | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 carriage | det |
| 13 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oxen | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | your neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbour=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | borrow | present | you not said here | a pair of oxen and a carriage | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=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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