Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 38, sentence 16
He went up to Katomá and said: “I was in the great hall, and I selected as my bride Anna the Fair: but I do not know whether I can woo her.”
Who acts: Iván · What happens: go up, say, be, select, not know, woo · To what, where: Katomá, great hall, Fair, Anna · 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 (Iván), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Katomá | case |
| 5 | Katomá | Katomá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hall | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hall | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hall | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hall | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hall | amod |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 selected | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 selected | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 selected | nsubj |
| 19 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Anna | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bride | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Anna | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 selected | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fair | det |
| 25 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 selected | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 know | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 know | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 know | advmod |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 selected | parataxis |
| 32 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 35 woo | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 woo | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 woo | aux |
| 35 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 know | ccomp |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 woo | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Iván | Katomá | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Iván not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Iván | the great hall | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | select in a quote | past | Iván | the Fair | as Anna my bride | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as anna=Attribute | |||
| 5 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Iván | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | woo in a quote | can | Iván | Anna | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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