Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 101
“I went through the whole village, and there is nobody who will give me his daughter.”
Who acts: neighbour, nobody · What happens: go, be, give · To what, where: whole village, daughter, neighbour
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour, nobody), 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 | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 village | amod |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 is | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 is | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nobody | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | neighbour | the whole village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | nobody | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | Goodman's daughter | neighbour | who nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=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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