Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 54
“I had nothing to eat before, but I am now as well off as you are.”
Who acts: rich brother, you · What happens: have, eat, be · To what, where: nothing
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 (rich brother, 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 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 off | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 off | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 off | cop |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 off | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 off | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 off | advmod |
| 15 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 are | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 are | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 off | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | the rich brother = brother | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the rich brother = brother not said here | nothing not said here | before property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the rich brother = brother | now | off, well property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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