Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 5
Why, you still have half of a fur; what is the use of it?
Who acts: you, half · What happens: have, be · To what, where: half, use
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, half), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fur | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fur | det |
| 9 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 half | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 use | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 use | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 use | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 use | det |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 half | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 use | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | half of a fur and the use | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | half of a fur and the use | the use | of use | 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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