Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 11
Carry me at once into the capital and give me a pile of money; you know yourself how little of these goods a soldier ever gets.”
Who acts: you, soldier · What happens: carry, give, know, get · To what, where: me, capital, pile, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, soldier), 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 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Carry | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Carry | obl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 capital | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capital | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Carry | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Carry | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pile | det |
| 12 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pile | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Carry | parataxis |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 little | advmod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gets | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 goods | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 goods | det |
| 23 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 little | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 soldier | det |
| 25 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gets | nsubj |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 gets | advmod |
| 27 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carry | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | me | the capital | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | a pile of money | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pile=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | present | you | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | present | a soldier | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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