Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 30
Have a portrait taken of yourself; I will show it to my daughters and ask which of them will take you.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, take, show, ask · To what, where: portrait, daughters, you · 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, I), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 portrait | det |
| 3 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 portrait | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 taken | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 show | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 show | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 show | aux |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 show | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 daughters | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 show | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ask | cc |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 show | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 take | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obl |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | imperative | you not said here | a portrait | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | a portrait not said here | of yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of yourself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | show | future | I | portrait | my daughters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to daughter=Recipient | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take | future | you | of daughters = daughter; which obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme you=Destination |
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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