Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
“Oh, Swan, fair maiden, I have a double task: Prince Vladímir has bidden me sew a _shúba_, and the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, and the buttonholes are not sewn.”
Who acts: Vladímir · What happens: bid, sew, not prepare, not mould, not sew · To what, where: Swan, shúba, sables, buttons, buttonholes
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), 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 | _ | 18 bidden | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Swan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Swan | Swan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 maiden | punct |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maiden | amod |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Swan | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bidden | aux |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 12 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 task | amod |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 bidden | punct |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Vladímir | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Vladímir | Vladímir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bidden | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bidden | aux |
| 18 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bidden | obj |
| 20 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bidden | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 shúba | det |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 shúba | punct |
| 23 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sew | obj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 sew | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 prepared | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 prepared | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sables | det |
| 28 | sables | sable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 prepared | aux:pass |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 prepared | advmod |
| 31 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 bidden | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 moulded | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 buttons | det |
| 34 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 moulded | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 moulded | aux:pass |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 moulded | advmod |
| 37 | moulded | mould | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 bidden | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sewn | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sewn | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 buttonholes | det |
| 41 | buttonholes | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sewn | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 sewn | aux:pass |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 sewn | advmod |
| 44 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 bidden | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 bidden | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid in a quote | present · perfect | Vladímir Prince | Swan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sew in a quote | infinitive | Vladímir Prince not said here | a shúba | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shúba=Product | ||||
| 3 | not prepare in a quote | present · passive | the sables | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not mould in a quote | present · passive | the buttons | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not sew in a quote | present · passive | the buttonholes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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