Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 64
“Well, I will tell you a story,” said the younger brother; “only do not talk until the end.
Who acts: younger brother · What happens: tell, say, not talk · To what, where: story, you · 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 (younger brother), 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 | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 talk | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 talk | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 talk | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 talk | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 talk | advmod |
| 21 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | until | until | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 talk | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the younger brother = brother | a story | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the younger brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not talk in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the younger brother not said here | until the end | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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