Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 16
“Oh, very well, I will start helping the poor: possibly they may pray for my soul.”
Who acts: fool, silver · What happens: start, help, pray · To what, where: poor
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 (fool, silver), 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 | _ | 9 start | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 start | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 start | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 start | aux |
| 9 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 start | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poor | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 helping | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 pray | punct |
| 14 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 17 pray | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pray | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pray | aux |
| 17 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 start | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 soul | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 soul | nmod:poss |
| 20 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pray | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 start | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start in a quote | future | what fool = fool | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | help in a quote | gerund | what fool = fool not said here | the poor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | may | silver | for my soul; possibly property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for soul=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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