Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 143
“That is the very reason I came to see you, in order to give you counsel; for, good man, you have become the Devil’s guest.
Who acts: That, boy, you · What happens: be, come, see, give, become · To what, where: reason, you, counsel, guest
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 (That, boy, 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 | _ | 6 reason | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 reason | advmod |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 give | mark |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 in | fixed |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 become | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 become | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 become | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 become | aux |
| 27 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 came | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Devil | det |
| 29 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 guest | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Devil | case |
| 31 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 become | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the boy = boy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | counsel | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme | |||
| 5 | become in a quote | present · perfect | you | the Devil's guest | for good man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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