Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 28
Would you like to see your powerful cities, your valorous hosts, your ships on the sea, or the wonderful stars of the sky?”
Who acts: you · What happens: like, see · To what, where: powerful cities
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | xcomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cities | nmod:poss |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cities | amod |
| 8 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hosts | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hosts | nmod:poss |
| 11 | valorous | valorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hosts | amod |
| 12 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cities | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ships | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ships | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cities | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ships | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stars | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 stars | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stars | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stars | amod |
| 23 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cities | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sky | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sky | det |
| 26 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stars | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | your powerful cities and your valorous hosts and your ships on the sea or the wonderful stars of the sky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=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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