Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 36, sentence 69
“Listen, Sorrow: I was not the person who locked you up here!”
Who acts: you, Sorrow, person · What happens: listen, not be, lock up · To what, where: Sorrow, person, you
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, Sorrow, person), 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sorrow | punct |
| 4 | Sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 person | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 person | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 person | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 locked | nsubj |
| 12 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 person | acl:relcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 locked | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 locked | compound:prt |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 locked | advmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Sorrow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | Sorrow | the person | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lock up in a quote | past | the person | you | here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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