Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 169
“But, father!” said the merchants, “wandering folk must be always taken in: they will not disturb us.”
Who acts: father, merchants · What happens: say, wonder, take in, not disturb · To what, where: folk, merchants, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, merchants), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchants | det |
| 9 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wandering | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wandering | punct |
| 12 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 merchants | acl |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandering | obj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 taken | advmod |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 taken | compound:prt |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 disturb | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 disturb | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 disturb | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 disturb | advmod |
| 23 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 disturb | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 disturb | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 disturb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | gerund | the merchants not said here | folk | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in in a quote | must · passive | the merchants | always property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not disturb in a quote | future | merchants = merchant | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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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