Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 58
So the rich man asked his brother: “Tell me, how did you become so rich?”
Who acts: rich man, brother · What happens: ask, tell, become · To what, where: brother, rich man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 man, brother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | iobj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 10 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 become | advmod |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 become | nsubj |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Tell | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rich | advmod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 become | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the rich man | man's brother | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the rich man = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | become in a quote | past · do-support | man's brother = brother | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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