Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 16

If I am, then I will eat him; but if he is, then let him kill me!"

Who acts: I, Ivan · What happens: eat, be, let, kill · To what, where: Ivan, me

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ivan), 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	_	3 am	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 am	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 eat	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 is	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 is	nsubj
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 let	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 let	advmod
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 kill	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	future	I	Ivan	then	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	be a condition, not said to happen	present	Ivan			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	I not said here	Ivan	then	tree rules
4	kill	infinitive	Ivan not said here	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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