Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 40
“Now, my sons, ye had better go and hunt for brides.”
Who acts: sons · What happens: have, hunt · To what, where: better go
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 (sons), 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 had | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 had | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sons | punct |
| 7 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 go | amod |
| 10 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hunt | cc |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 brides | case |
| 14 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hunt | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | my sons | better go | now | ye nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient | ||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | present | my sons not said here | for brides | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for bride=Theme |
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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