Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 119
“Because your mother has bidden me take out your liver and brains and cook them.”
Who acts: you · What happens: bid, take out, cook · To what, where: mother, liver
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 7. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 bidden | mark |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bidden | aux |
| 6 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 take | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bidden | obj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 take | compound:prt |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 liver | nmod:poss |
| 11 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brains | cc |
| 13 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 liver | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cook | cc |
| 15 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cook | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid in a quote | present · perfect · passive | your mother | me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your liver and brains | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cook in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | mother | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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