Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 66
“Sew me this _shúba_ at once: the sables are not prepared, the buttons are not moulded, the buttonholes are not sewn.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sew, not prepare, not mould, not sew · To what, where: shúba, twelve youths, 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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Sew | punct |
| 2 | Sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Sew | obj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 shúba | det |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 shúba | punct |
| 6 | shúba | shúba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sew | obj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sew | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Sew | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepared | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sables | det |
| 12 | sables | sable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 prepared | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 prepared | advmod |
| 15 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Sew | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moulded | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 buttons | det |
| 18 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 moulded | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 moulded | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 moulded | advmod |
| 21 | moulded | mould | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 prepared | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sewn | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 buttonholes | det |
| 24 | buttonholes | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sewn | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sewn | aux:pass |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 sewn | advmod |
| 27 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 prepared | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sew | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this shúba | the twelve youths = youth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary shúba=Product | |||
| 2 | not prepare in a quote | present · passive | the sables | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not mould in a quote | present · passive | the buttons | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | 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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