Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 22
“We have three finds in the road, and we cannot divide them; every one wants them for himself.”
Who acts: We, one · What happens: have, find, not divide, want · To what, where: three, road, food · 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 (We, one), 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 | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finds | ccomp |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 divide | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 divide | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 divide | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 divide | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 divide | advmod |
| 14 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 finds | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 divide | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 wants | punct |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wants | nsubj |
| 19 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finds | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wants | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 wants | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | We | three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | the road | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not divide in a quote | can | we | food | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | every one | food | for youth | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=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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