Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 125
The blind man said to Katomá, “Sit on my back and show me the way: I will serve you with my feet and you me with your eyes.”
Who acts: blind man · What happens: say, sit, show, serve · To what, where: Katomá, back, way, blind man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Katomá | case |
| 6 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sit | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sit | punct |
| 9 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sit | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 show | cc |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 Sit | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 serve | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 serve | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 serve | aux |
| 21 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 serve | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 serve | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 me | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 me | nsubj |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 feet | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 eyes | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 serve | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the blind man | Katomá | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to katomá=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | infinitive | my back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | infinitive | the way | the blind man = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | future | the blind man = man | Katomá | with my feet me; with your eyes | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with foot=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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