Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 94
“Take it into the city; possibly somebody may buy it.”
Who acts: you, somebody · What happens: take, buy · To what, where: jewel, city
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, somebody), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 buy | punct |
| 8 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 9 somebody | advmod |
| 9 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 buy | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 buy | aux |
| 11 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 buy | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | jewel | the city | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into city=Destination | |||
| 2 | buy in a quote | may | somebody | jewel | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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