Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
And I really cannot imagine what this fine gentleman wants of me.
Who acts: I, fine gentleman · What happens: not imagine, want
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fine gentleman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 imagine | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 imagine | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 imagine | advmod |
| 6 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 wants | obj |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 gentleman | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gentleman | amod |
| 10 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wants | nsubj |
| 11 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 imagine | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wants | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | can | I | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | want | present | this fine gentleman | of me; what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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