Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 43
“It has all been forgotten, my beloved sisters,” she said to them; “ye are my kin, ye are not strangers.
Who acts: mother, ye · What happens: forget, say, be, not be · To what, where: kin, sisters, strangers · 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 (mother, ye), 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 | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgotten | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 forgotten | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 6 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sisters | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sisters | amod |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forgotten | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sisters | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 forgotten | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 kin | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 kin | punct |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 kin | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kin | cop |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 strangers | punct |
| 24 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 strangers | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 strangers | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 strangers | advmod |
| 27 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kin | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget in a quote | present · perfect · passive | kin | my beloved sisters obl; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother | sisters = sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | ye | my kin | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | ye | strangers | tree rules |
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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