Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 4
“Never mind, Hodge; what do you want money for?
Who acts: you · What happens: not mind, want · To what, where: Hodge, money
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 | “ | " | 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 Hodge | punct |
| 5 | Hodge | Hodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mind | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 want | obj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | advcl |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 want | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | 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 | Hodge | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hodge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | money | what obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme money=Attribute |
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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