Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 93
If you'll only bury my old woman, I'll never forget your kindness."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bury, not forget · To what, where: old woman, kindness
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 bury | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bury | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bury | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bury | advmod |
| 5 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forget | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 woman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bury | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bury | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 forget | advmod |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forget | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forget | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my old woman | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not forget | future | I | your kindness | 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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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