Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 96
“O _bátyushka_,[10] how do you know her: was there any little bird that told you?
Who acts: bátyushka, little bird · What happens: know, be, tell · To what, where: wife, there, you · 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 (bátyushka, little bird), 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 | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 bátyushka | discourse |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 bátyushka | punct |
| 4 | bátyushka | bátyushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 know | nsubj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 bátyushka | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 10 | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 10 | punct |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 bátyushka | appos |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 10 | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 know | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 know | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 bird | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bird | amod |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bird | acl:relcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | bátyushka | wife | you nsubj; any little bird obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | any little bird | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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