Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 150
There will be a patch over my right eye; that will be the sign.”
Who acts: patch, that · What happens: be · To what, where: sign
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 (patch, that), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 patch | det |
| 5 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 eye | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eye | amod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 patch | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sign | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sign | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 sign | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sign | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sign | det |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sign | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | future | a patch over my right eye | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | that | the sign | 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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