Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 127
Then the old man said, “I think I might go and visit my sons-in-law.”
Who acts: old man · What happens: say, think, go, visit · To what, where: sons · 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 (old man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 think | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 visit | cc |
| 14 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sons | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 visit | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sons | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the old man = man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | might | the old man = man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | visit in a quote | infinitive | the old man = man not said here | my sons and law | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
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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