Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
“Yet I have one word more for you,” said the fair maiden to the Tsar: “Do not separate my kin from me, let my mother and my father and my sisters remain with me.”
Who acts: fair maiden, sisters · What happens: have, say, not separate, let, remain · To what, where: one word, kin, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fair maiden, sisters), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 word | nummod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 more | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Tsar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tsar | det |
| 18 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 separate | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 separate | punct |
| 21 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 separate | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 separate | advmod |
| 23 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kin | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 separate | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 separate | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 separate | conj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 father | cc |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mother | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 remain | cc |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 37 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 remain | nsubj |
| 38 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 remain | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the fair maiden = maiden | one word | yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fair maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not separate in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my kin | from the fair maiden = maiden | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent kin=Patient from i=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | my mother and my father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||||
| 5 | remain in a quote | present | my sisters | with the fair maiden = maiden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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