Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 23
“What are the finds? what are you contending for?”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, find, contend
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), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 finds | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 finds | det |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 contending | obj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 contending | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 contending | nsubj |
| 10 | contending | contend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 finds | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 contending | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | contend in a quote | present · progressive | you | what 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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