Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 41
“I don’t mind about that; give it to me; it is the only thing I will take.”
Who acts: Petrúsha, nag · What happens: not mind, give, be, take · To what, where: nag, Petrúsha, only thing
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 (Petrúsha, nag), 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 | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mind | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mind | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mind | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | present · do-support | Petrúsha | about that | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | Petrúsha not said here | nag | Petrúsha | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | nag | the only thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | Petrúsha | the only thing not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
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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