Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 7
“O my light, my father, my sisters called me to the wood: they killed me here to get my saucer, my silver saucer, and my crystal apple.
Who acts: light, my · What happens: call, kill, get, light · To what, where: pipe, wood, saucer · 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 (light, my), 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 | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 light | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 light | nmod:poss |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 light | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sisters | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 light | conj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 killed | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | obj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 killed | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 killed | advcl |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 saucer | nmod:poss |
| 24 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saucer | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 saucer | nmod:poss |
| 27 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 saucer | amod |
| 28 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saucer | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 apple | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 apple | cc |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 apple | nmod:poss |
| 32 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 apple | amod |
| 33 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | past | my light and my father and my sisters | the pipe = pipe | the wood | my crystal apple conj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to wood=Recipient | ||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | light | the pipe = pipe | here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | light not said here | my saucer and my silver saucer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saucer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | light in a quote | my | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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