Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 110
“Give him to me—I will adopt him; he shall grow up; I will teach him well; and when I die he shall have all my wealth.”
Who acts: you, Mark · What happens: give, adopt, grow up, teach, die, have · To what, where: MARK, wealth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Mark), 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 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | obl |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 adopt | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 adopt | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 adopt | aux |
| 9 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 adopt | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grow | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grow | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 grow | aux |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 adopt | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grow | compound:prt |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 teach | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 teach | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 teach | aux |
| 19 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 adopt | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 teach | obj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 teach | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 die | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 die | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 die | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 die | nsubj |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | advcl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 die | ccomp |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 wealth | det:predet |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | MARK | to Mark | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | adopt in a quote | future | Mark | MARK | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow up in a quote | shall | MARK | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other in a quote | future | Mark | MARK | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | present | Mark | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | shall | MARK | my wealth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient |
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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