Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 13
“In a minute, brother; I am taking off my shoes.”
Who acts: brother · What happens: take off · To what, where: shoes
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 (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 | _ | 4 minute | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minute | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 minute | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | aux |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 minute | acl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 taking | compound:prt |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 minute | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 minute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off in a quote | present · progressive | the brother = brother | my shoes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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