Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 25
I shall be so glad to look after you and to care for you as long as my mother is not here.
Who acts: I, mother · What happens: be, look, care, not be
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 (I, mother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 care | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 care | mark |
| 12 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 care | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 care | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 here | mark |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 here | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 here | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 here | advmod |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 long | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | after you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | care | to-infinitive | I not said here | for you; long property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | my mother | here property | 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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