Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 82
And then Vasíli said with tears, “The Nightingale is foretelling that a time and season is coming when you will be my servants, when father will draw me water and mother will give me the towel to wipe my face and hands.”
Who acts: Vasíli, Nightingale, time, you, father, water · What happens: say, foretell, come, be, draw, give · To what, where: servants, Vasíli, towel, face · 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 (Vasíli, Nightingale, time, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | Vasíli | Vasíli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 tears | case |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 foretelling | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 foretelling | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Nightingale | det |
| 10 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 foretelling | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 foretelling | aux |
| 12 | foretelling | foretell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 coming | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 season | cc |
| 17 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | conj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 foretelling | advcl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 servants | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 servants | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 servants | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 servants | cop |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 servants | nmod:poss |
| 25 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 coming | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 draw | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 draw | advmod |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 draw | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 draw | aux |
| 30 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 draw | obj |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mother | cc |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 water | conj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | aux |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 draw | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 towel | det |
| 39 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 wipe | mark |
| 41 | wipe | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 towel | acl |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 face | nmod:poss |
| 43 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wipe | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 hands | cc |
| 45 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 face | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 draw | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Vasíli | then | with tears | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | foretell in a quote | present · progressive | the Nightingale | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | a time and season | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | you | my servants | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | draw in a quote | future | father | Vasíli | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | future | water and mother | the towel | Vasíli | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient towel=Theme | |||
| 7 | wipe in a quote | to-infinitive | water and mother not said here | my face and hands | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source |
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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