Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 85
“Here,” he said, as he came in, to his wife, “here is a hen I have bought you.”
Who acts: bridge · What happens: say, come in, be, buy · To what, where: hen, you · 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 (bridge), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hen | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wife | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wife | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wife | punct |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 wife | advmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hen | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hen | det |
| 21 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bought | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bought | aux |
| 24 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 hen | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 bought | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 hen | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 hen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bridge | a hen not said here | here | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in | past | bridge | to bridge's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a hen | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | buy in a quote | present · perfect | bridge | a hen not said here | you | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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