Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 143
“Good folks all,” said the shepherd, “I do not know anything about it.
Who acts: Good folks · What happens: say, not know · To what, where: shepherd, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good folks), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 folks | amod |
| 3 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shepherd | det |
| 9 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 anything | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good folks | the shepherd | all property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shepherd=Topic | |||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Good folks = folk | anything | about question | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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