Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 83
“Yes,” said the guest; “no remarks, or else I shall not open my mouth.”
Who acts: guest, remarks · What happens: say, not open · To what, where: mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest, remarks), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guest | det |
| 7 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarks | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 remarks | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 remarks | det |
| 11 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 open | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 open | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 open | cc |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 open | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 open | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 open | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 open | advmod |
| 18 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 open | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the guest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not open in a quote | shall | no remarks | my mouth | I nsubj; else property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=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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