Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 148
But if you bless me I shall go; and if you do not bless me I shall go."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bless, go, not bless · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 bless | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bless | nsubj |
| 4 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bless | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bless | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bless | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bless | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 bless | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bless | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bless | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bless | advmod |
| 15 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bless | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bless | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | shall | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not bless a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | shall | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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