Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 116
So Mark the Rich asked the youth to go home and take a letter to his wife; but in that letter he bade her poison the boy like a dog.
Who acts: Mark · What happens: ask, go, take, bade · To what, where: youth, letter, wife, poison
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rich | det |
| 4 | Rich | Rich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mark | flat |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 youth | acl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 letter | det |
| 14 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bade | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 bade | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 letter | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 letter | det |
| 22 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bade | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bade | nsubj |
| 24 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 poison | nmod:poss |
| 26 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bade | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boy | det |
| 28 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bade | obj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 dog | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dog | det |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bade | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Mark | the youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Mark not said here | the youth not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | Mark not said here | a letter | MARK's wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to wife=Destination | |||
| 4 | bade | past | MARK | wife's poison | that letter | like a dog; the boy obj | tree rules |
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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