Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 25
“Never mind, _bátyushka_,” said Zamorýshek, “we will catch the thief: give me a hundred roubles, and I will do the deed.”
Who acts: Zamorýshek, we · What happens: not mind, say, catch, give, do · To what, where: bátyushka, thief, hundred roubles, Zamorýshek, deed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Zamorýshek, we), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bátyushka | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 bátyushka | punct |
| 6 | bátyushka | bátyushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 mind | obj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 bátyushka | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Zamorýshek | Zamorýshek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 catch | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 catch | aux |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thief | det |
| 18 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 catch | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 catch | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 roubles | nummod |
| 24 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 do | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 give | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 deed | det |
| 31 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | bátyushka | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bátyushka=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Zamorýshek | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch in a quote | future | we | the thief | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | hundred roubles | Zamorýshek | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rouble=Theme | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | future | Zamorýshek | the deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
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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