Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 93
Then he began to ask her, “O my own grandmother, what did you wish to tell me?”
Who acts: DANÍLO, you · What happens: begin, ask, wish, tell · To what, where: woman, own grandmother, old woman · 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 (DANÍLO, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grandmother | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 grandmother | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 12 grandmother | discourse |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grandmother | amod |
| 12 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 wish | obj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 grandmother | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | DANÍLO = danílo | then | my own grandmother parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | DANÍLO = danílo not said here | woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | past · do-support | you | my own grandmother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the old woman = woman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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