Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 49
First of all give us food and drink, take us into the bath, and thereafter ask us for our news, and question us.”
What happens: give, take, ask, question · To what, where: food, us, bath
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: 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bath | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bath | det |
| 14 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ask | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 17 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 18 ask | advmod |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | iobj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 news | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 news | nmod:poss |
| 22 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 question | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 question | cc |
| 25 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 question | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | food and drink | us | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | us | the bath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into bath=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | us | for our news; thereafter property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | question speech: other | infinitive | us | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
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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