Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 35
Prince Vladímir has given me eighty score of sable skins, of which I am to make a _shúba_ in the morning.
Who acts: Vladímir, I · What happens: give, be, score · To what, where: eighty score, me, sable skins
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 (Vladímir, I), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 given | iobj |
| 6 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 score | nummod |
| 7 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 skins | case |
| 9 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skins | amod |
| 10 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 score | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 make | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shúba | det |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 shúba | punct |
| 20 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 _ | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | Vladímir Prince | eighty score of sable skins | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient score=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | which obl; a shúba obj; make property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | score | sable skins | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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