Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 38
Then the father asked the next daughter, “Will you go and marry the soldier?”
Who acts: father, next daughter · What happens: ask, go, marry · To what, where: next daughter, soldier · 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 (father, next daughter), 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 | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 marry | cc |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soldier | det |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the father | the next daughter | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | the next daughter = daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | infinitive | the next daughter = daughter not said here | the soldier | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
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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