Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 81
Let me say good-bye—I should like to greet my kin.”
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, say, like, greet · To what, where: me, good, kin · 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 (you, me, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 1 Let | discourse |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 greet | mark |
| 12 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 greet | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | me not said here | good | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my kin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kin=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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