Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 47
Then at last Chúdo-Yúda asked him: “Why do you beat me, Danílo the Unfortunate?”
Who acts: last Chúdo Yúda, sea · What happens: ask, beat · To what, where: sea, last Chúdo Yúda · 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 (last Chúdo Yúda, sea), 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 | 7 asked | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Yúda | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Yúda | amod |
| 4 | Chúdo | Chúdo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Yúda | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Chúdo | punct |
| 6 | Yúda | Yúda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
| 11 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 beat | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 beat | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 beat | nsubj |
| 14 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 beat | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Danílo | punct |
| 17 | Danílo | Danílo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | vocative |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Unfortunate | det |
| 19 | Unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | last Chúdo Yúda | sea | then | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | beat in a quote | present · do-support | sea | last Chúdo Yúda = yúda | Danílo vocative; the Unfortunate obl:unmarked | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=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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