Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 2
Did you just now not say that you wished to become one of our servants?
Who acts: you · What happens: not say, wish, become · To what, where: one · 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), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 say | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 say | advmod |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wished | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 become | mark |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 become | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 servants | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 servants | nmod:poss |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | you | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | one of our servants | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result |
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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