Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 30
Only ask them to give you the sorry horse on which the unholy spirits load their fuel and water.
Who acts: you, unholy spirits · What happens: ask, give, load · To what, where: reward, sorry horse, you, fuel
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 (you, unholy spirits), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 load | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spirits | det |
| 13 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirits | amod |
| 14 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 load | nsubj |
| 15 | load | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 horse | acl:relcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fuel | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 load | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 water | cc |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fuel | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | reward | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the sorry horse | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme | |||
| 3 | load | present | the unholy spirits | reward's fuel and water | on the sorry horse | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme on which=Destination |
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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