Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 114
Perhaps he'll be killed; but then if he isn't, he'll never give us these beauties as wives."
Who acts: rope · What happens: kill, not be, not give · To what, where: rope, beauties, us
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 killed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 give | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 give | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | advcl |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 is | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 give | advmod |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 killed | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 beauties | det |
| 20 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 wives | case |
| 22 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | future · passive | rope | perhaps property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not be a condition, not said to happen | present | rope | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not give | future | rope | this beauties | us | then | as wives | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient beauty=Theme |
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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