Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 96
“You were told not to make any interruptions, and you will not let him end his story.”
Who acts: you, man · What happens: tell, not make, not let, end · To what, where: You, interruptions, man, story · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 interruptions | det |
| 9 | interruptions | interruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 let | advmod |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 story | nmod:poss |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past · passive | You | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | any interruptions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset interruption=Product | |||||
| 3 | not let in a quote | future | you | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | end in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | man's story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality |
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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