Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 40
Then the old woman, with her patched skirt, said, “Oh, I am now ‘_Bábushka_’ and your ‘little dove’!
Who acts: old woman · What happens: patch, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 skirt | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 skirt | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | patched | patch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 skirt | amod |
| 9 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bábushka | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 now | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 now | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 now | cop |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 Bábushka | advmod |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 now | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bábushka | punct |
| 21 | Bábushka | Bábushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | parataxis |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bábushka | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bábushka | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dove | cc |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 dove | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 dove | punct |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dove | amod |
| 28 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Bábushka | conj |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 dove | punct |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bábushka | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the old woman and woman's patched skirt | then | Bábushka and your little dove parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the old woman and woman's patched skirt = woman | now property | tree rules |
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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