Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 9, sentence 82
“Master, I will pour blood into an ewe-skin, put that under my armpit and talk to the maiden.
Who acts: master · What happens: pour, put, talk · To what, where: Master, ewe skin, that, armpit
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 (master), 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 | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pour | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pour | aux |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 10 | ewe | ewe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ewe | punct |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pour | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 armpit | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 armpit | nmod:poss |
| 18 | armpit | armpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 talk | cc |
| 20 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 maiden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 talk | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour in a quote | future | the master = master | Master | a ewe skin | blood obj | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme into skin=Destination | ||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | the master = master not said here | that | my armpit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme under armpit=Destination | |||
| 3 | talk in a quote | infinitive | the master = master not said here | to the maiden | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to maiden=Co-Agent |
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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